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Here is another post over on the QDMA website made by the guy that comes on this site by the name of Flounder. If you remember a post awhile back this guy said he was here on good faith. Yeah,Ok!
Tahc Adopts Cwd Rule To Remove Any Specific Fence Height Requirement
Thursday, October 03, 2013
TAHC ADOPTS CWD RULE THAT the amendments remove the requirement for a specific fence height for captives
Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC)
ANNOUNCEMENT
October 3, 2013
snip...
Summary Minutes from 387th Commission Meeting – 9/10/2013
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1) The first change is to the definition of “Physical Herd Inventory� to remove the requirement that all animals in the herd must be restrained in order to have the identification validated by the person performing the inventory verification.
2) The second modification is the fencing requirement found in §40.3(a) which provides that a herd premises must have perimeter fencing of a minimum of eight feet in height and adequate to prevent ingress or egress of cervids. That standard is found in the Uniform Method and Rules for CWD, but under the federal regulations the standard provides merely that the fencing must be adequate to prevent ingress or egress of cervids and the commission is modifying agency requirements to meet that standard by removing the eight foot requirement.
The motion to approve the regulation amendment passed.
http://www.tahc.state.tx.us/agency/m...Report-387.pdf
The amendments remove the requirement for a specific fence height...
but under the federal regulations the standard provides merely that the fencing must be adequate to prevent ingress or egress of cervids and the commission is modifying agency requirements to meet that standard by removing the eight foot requirement.
Greetings,
and they call this sound science $$$
IF there are no restrictions on fencing heights, this CWD program in Texas is a failure before it ever get’s started. you cannot let the wolf guard the henhouse, and this is what the TAHC/USDA have done with captive shooting pens and regulations there from here in the great state of Texas. this in essence confirms what I said all along, that the USDA et al have no intentions of monitoring or capturing all the cervid escapees from cwd index herds of captive shooting pens and the folks that cater to them, and the by-products there from that potentially carry the CWD TSE prion agent. this was absolutely insane to remove the fencing height regulations by the USDA. political science as usual coming out of the USDA et al. the USDA have given up on trying to manage any TSE prion disease, and for this reason, I would advise (my honest opinion), that any other state that is seriously trying to eradicate, manage, control, cwd in the wild herds, and to protect the wild herds (if there are any states left out there that want to protect there wild cervid herds), this change of regulations in Texas with CWD regulations that now will maintain NO regulations on fencing heights, would be like playing Russian Rullett with CWD. this is asking CWD to cross into Texas, but TAHC et al did that back in 2002, where I told them that CWD was in the Trans Pecos region, and that they were not testing nearly enough for CWD there in 2002 (see emails at the bottom), but imagine what would have happened if TAHC would have gotten serious about CWD in cervids back then. Texas has not a clue about CWD in captive shooting pens, farms, and ranches in Texas. ...
snip...see full text and more here ;
http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogs...mendments.html
kind regards,
terry
Tahc Adopts Cwd Rule To Remove Any Specific Fence Height Requirement
Thursday, October 03, 2013
TAHC ADOPTS CWD RULE THAT the amendments remove the requirement for a specific fence height for captives
Texas Animal Health Commission (TAHC)
ANNOUNCEMENT
October 3, 2013
snip...
Summary Minutes from 387th Commission Meeting – 9/10/2013
18
1) The first change is to the definition of “Physical Herd Inventory� to remove the requirement that all animals in the herd must be restrained in order to have the identification validated by the person performing the inventory verification.
2) The second modification is the fencing requirement found in §40.3(a) which provides that a herd premises must have perimeter fencing of a minimum of eight feet in height and adequate to prevent ingress or egress of cervids. That standard is found in the Uniform Method and Rules for CWD, but under the federal regulations the standard provides merely that the fencing must be adequate to prevent ingress or egress of cervids and the commission is modifying agency requirements to meet that standard by removing the eight foot requirement.
The motion to approve the regulation amendment passed.
http://www.tahc.state.tx.us/agency/m...Report-387.pdf
The amendments remove the requirement for a specific fence height...
but under the federal regulations the standard provides merely that the fencing must be adequate to prevent ingress or egress of cervids and the commission is modifying agency requirements to meet that standard by removing the eight foot requirement.
Greetings,
and they call this sound science $$$
IF there are no restrictions on fencing heights, this CWD program in Texas is a failure before it ever get’s started. you cannot let the wolf guard the henhouse, and this is what the TAHC/USDA have done with captive shooting pens and regulations there from here in the great state of Texas. this in essence confirms what I said all along, that the USDA et al have no intentions of monitoring or capturing all the cervid escapees from cwd index herds of captive shooting pens and the folks that cater to them, and the by-products there from that potentially carry the CWD TSE prion agent. this was absolutely insane to remove the fencing height regulations by the USDA. political science as usual coming out of the USDA et al. the USDA have given up on trying to manage any TSE prion disease, and for this reason, I would advise (my honest opinion), that any other state that is seriously trying to eradicate, manage, control, cwd in the wild herds, and to protect the wild herds (if there are any states left out there that want to protect there wild cervid herds), this change of regulations in Texas with CWD regulations that now will maintain NO regulations on fencing heights, would be like playing Russian Rullett with CWD. this is asking CWD to cross into Texas, but TAHC et al did that back in 2002, where I told them that CWD was in the Trans Pecos region, and that they were not testing nearly enough for CWD there in 2002 (see emails at the bottom), but imagine what would have happened if TAHC would have gotten serious about CWD in cervids back then. Texas has not a clue about CWD in captive shooting pens, farms, and ranches in Texas. ...
snip...see full text and more here ;
http://chronic-wasting-disease.blogs...mendments.html
kind regards,
terry
