A bill to amend the Animal Health Protection Act to support State and Tribal efforts to develop and implement management strategies to address chronic wasting disease among deer, elk, and moose populations, to support research regarding the causes of chronic wasting disease and methods to control the further spread of the disease, and for other purposes.
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Latest Action · March 6, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act
This bill requires the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to support state and tribal efforts to address chronic wasting disease. The transmissible disease afflicts deer, elk, and moose populations.
In addition, USDA must make grants to research centers to support efforts to expand and accelerate applied research on the disease.
Land management agencies of the USDA and the Department of the Interior must work cooperatively with states in researching the disease and implementing state management strategies to reduce the spread and prevalence of the disease.
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