Chronic Wasting Disease Support Act of 2003

Bill: 108-s-1036
Sponsor: Sen. Allard, Wayne [R-CO]
Introduced: 2003-05-09 in the Senate
Policy area: Animals
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Agricultural extension work
Agricultural research
Agriculture and Food
Animal diseases
Brain diseases
Commerce
Communicable diseases
Communication in medicine
Computer simulation
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Data banks
Deer
Department of Agriculture
Department of the Interior
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Elk
Environmental Protection
Epidemiology
Federal aid to Indians
Federal aid to research
Federal-state relations
Genetic research
Genetics
Geology
Government Operations and Politics
Government publicity
Governmental investigations
Health
Health information systems
Health surveys
Indian lands
Internet
Interstate commerce
Laboratories
Land use
Law
Legislation
Licenses
Livestock
Medical laboratories
Medical research
Medical statistics
Medical tests
Minorities
Nervous system diseases
Preventive medicine
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Research and development
Science, Technology, Communications
Soil science
Tissue banks
Transportation and Public Works
Veterinary medicine
Web sites
Wildlife
Wildlife conservation

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: 
Chronic Wasting Disease support Act of 2003 - Defines &quot;chronic wasting disease&quot; as a transmissible disease of the nervous system afflicting deer and elk.
 
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to develop a grant program to allocate funds to the State agency responsible for wildlife management to develop and implement long-term management strategies to address such disease.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish a computer modeling program to predict the spread of chronic wasting disease in deer and elk.
 
Directs the Secretary of the Interior (through the U.S. Geological Survey) and the Secretary of Agriculture (through the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) to conduct surveillance and monitoring programs on Federal lands to identify: (1) the rate of infection in wild herds of deer and elk; (2) the cause and extent of the spread of the disease; and (3) areas promoting the disease.
 
Directs the Secretary of Interior to develop and maintain a web site that displays surveillance and monitoring program data and modeling information.
 
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to: (1) develop guidelines for the collection of animal tissue samples, and a protocol for assessing samples in the laboratory; (2) develop a program for the inspection of laboratories conducting chronic wasting disease tests; (3) provide for the upgrading of Federal laboratories approved to process such samples; and (4) expand and accelerate research on the disease through the Agricultural Research Service and Cooperative State Research grant program.
 

 

 
Requires the Secretaries of Agriculture and of the Interior to enter a cooperative agreement for the purpose of coordinating actions and disbursing funds authorized under this Act.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. (text of measure as introduced: CR S5998-5999)
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S5997-5998)
action_date: 2003-05-09
text: Introduced in Senate