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Final rule.

The Department of Transportation (Department or DOT) is making a technical change to the August 11, 2003, final rule implementing section 710 of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation Investment and Reform Act for the 21st Century (AIR-21) to require the reporting airlines to submit the required information on the loss, injury, or death of an animal during air transport to DOT's Aviation Consumer Protection Division rather than the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and, accordingly, is making the rule part of DOT's economic regulations.

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