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TITLE 31	NATURAL RESOURCES AND CONSERVATION
PART 2	TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT
CHAPTER 65	WILDLIFE
SUBCHAPTER B	DISEASE DETECTION AND RESPONSE
DIVISION 2	CHRONIC WASTING DISEASE - MOVEMENT OF DEER
RULE §65.96	Movement of DMP Deer
ISSUE	04/22/2016
ACTION	Proposed

Preamble

Texas Admin Code Rule

This section applies to the movement of deer under a DMP.

(1)Testing Requirements.

(A)There are no CWD testing requirements for a DMP facility that:

(i)does not receive breeder deer; or

(ii)receives breeder deer solely from TC 1 deer breeding facilities.

(B)A release site onto which deer are liberated from the following is required to submit "not detected" test results equivalent to 50 percent of the number of hunter-harvested deer in each hunting year for five consecutive hunting years, beginning with the hunting year immediately following the liberation of:

(i)deer from a DMP facility that receives breeder deer from a TC 2 deer breeding facility; or

(ii)deer from a DMP facility that receives deer trapped deer from a Class II release site.

(2)The department will not authorize the transfer of deer to a DMP facility from a TC 3 breeding facility.

The agency certifies that legal counsel has reviewed the proposal and found it to be within the state agency's legal authority to adopt.

Filed with the Office of the Secretary of State on April 11, 2016

TRD-201601678

Ann Bright

General Counsel

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department

Earliest possible date of adoption: May 22, 2016

For further information, please call: (512) 389-4775

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