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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
117TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 117-202
CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE RESEARCH AND
MANAGEMENT ACT
DECEMBER 7, 2021.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, from the Committee on Agriculture,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 5608]
The Committee on Agriculture, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 5608) to support research and state management efforts on
chronic wasting disease, having considered the same, reports favor-
ably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do
pass.
BRIEF EXPLANATION
This legislation authorizes $70 million annually from Fiscal Year
2022 through Fiscal Year 2028 to be divided equally between re-
search and management projects regarding chronic wasting disease
(CWD). USDA will administer the funds through cooperative agree-
ments. The bill also requires the development of educational mate-
rials to inform the public on CWD and directs USDA to review its
CWD herd certification program (HCP) standards within 18
months.
PURPOSE AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
CWD is a contagious neurological disease affecting cervids (deer,
elk and moose). Since first being documented in 1967, CWD has
spread to 27 states throughout the U.S. CWD is in the family of
diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies
(TSE). Unlike other infectious diseases, TSEs are not caused by
bacteria or viruses, but rather by a naturally occurring protein,
that when folded incorrectly, becomes both infectious and deadly.
The exact mechanism of disease transmission is unclear, although
evidence suggests CWD is transmitted directly from one animal to
another through bodily fluids and tissues. Unfortunately, there is
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