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Version 00 · Introduced in House · Nov 21, 2017
Chronic Wasting Disease Management Act
This bill requires the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service-Wildlife Services to support state and tribal efforts to address chronic wasting disease. The transmissible disease afflicts deer, elk, and moose populations.
The agency must make grants to research centers to support efforts to expand and accelerate applied research on the disease.
Land management agencies of the Department of Agriculture and the Department of the Interior must work cooperatively with states in researching the disease and implementing state response plans to reduce the spread and prevalence of the disease.
People & committees
Rep. Kind, Ron [D-WI-3] · D–WI
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Referred to the Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Lands.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Referred to the Committee on Agriculture, and in addition to the Committee on Natural Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
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