Senator Womack’s SCR 24 would ‘reset’ CWD rules; task force tables recommendations pending legislative action
Senate Concurrent Resolution 24 would lower zone radii, set a 1.5% apparent-prevalence trigger and a 300-sample surveillance benchmark while allowing limited bait/feed from Sept. 1–March 31. The task force heard scientific and economic concerns and tabled its written recommendations pending the legislature’s action on SCR 24.
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Senator Womack outlined Senate Concurrent Resolution 24 on April 17, telling the Chronic Wasting Disease task force that the proposal ‘‘puts a reset on the chronic wasting disease, as it stands today,’’ with key provisions meant to limit immediate regulatory impacts on hunters and businesses.
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