SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Safeguarding Amer-
ica’s Food Economy and Controlling Agricultural Threats 
to Livestock and Enterprises Act’’ or the ‘‘SAFE CAT-
TLE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. INTERAGENCY COOPERATION ON NEW WORLD 
SCREWWORM 
ERADICATION 
AND 
MONI-
TORING ACTIVITIES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Agri-
culture and the Secretary of the Interior shall enter into 
a memorandum of understanding or other interagency 
agreement, to carry out, and coordinate on, activities to 
prevent, control, and eradicate New World screwworm in 
wildlife and non-livestock species of animals on covered 
lands. Such activities shall include— 
(1) coordinating joint surveillance and moni-
toring protocols for early detection of New World 
screwworm in wildlife and non-livestock species of 
animals on covered lands; 
(2) for purposes of controlling and containing 
New World screwworm in all species of animals on 
covered lands in the event of an outbreak, coordi-
nating with (as appropriate) State wildlife and live-
stock health officers with respect to response proce-
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dures, the distribution of information, and notifica-
tion procedures; 
(3) coordinating New World screwworm eradi-
cation protocols to protect wildlife and non-livestock 
species of animals on covered lands, stabilize and re-
duce the threat to domestic animal agriculture, and 
safeguard the domestic food supply and the econ-
omy; and 
(4) developing science-based and risk-based ap-
proaches and systems to facilitate continuity of busi-
ness for non-infected animals of all species and non- 
contaminated areas on covered lands. 
(b) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter until 
the date on which the Secretary of Agriculture certifies 
to the Congress that the New World screwworm has been 
quarantined south of the Darien Gap in Panama, the Sec-
retary of Agriculture and the Secretary of the Interior 
shall jointly submit to the Committee on Agriculture and 
the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
and Forestry and the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources of the Senate a report detailing the following: 
(1) the extent of interagency coordination be-
tween each Federal agency involved in the preven-
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tion, control, and eradication of New World 
screwworm on covered lands; 
(2) any progress made in the surveillance and 
prevention of New World screwworm outbreaks; 
(3) any incidents of infestation of New World 
screwworm in the United States and Federal col-
laborative activities undertaken to control the spread 
of such infestation; and 
(4) any recommendations for legislative or ad-
ministrative action to improve the Federal response 
capacity to the threat of New World screwworm. 
(c) COVERED LANDS DEFINED.—In this Act, the 
term ‘‘covered lands’’ means lands managed by the Na-
tional Park Service, the United States Fish and Wildlife 
Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of 
Reclamation, or the Forest Service. 
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