anchor: APHIS rejected the second alternative because it believed that less stringent mitigating measures than the ones proposed would increase the risk of the introduction of hog cholera into the United States and that more stringent mitigating conditions would be unnecessarily restrictive.
positive: The risk of hog cholera in the United States would be increased if less stringent mitigating measures are implemented.
negative: There is no risk of hog cholera in the United States.