Sec. 5. Wildlife Disease Surveillance Program
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The Director, acting through the Wildlife Health Office of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and in consultation with the Director of the United States Geological Survey, shall establish a program to— monitor wildlife disease threats to evaluate the risk posed by and impact of such diseases on the United States; conduct research and development to create statistically supported sampling frameworks for broad-scale surveillance of wildlife disease threats; conduct research on wildlife disease transmission and on effective outreach to stakeholders to help manage wildlife disease; conduct statistical modeling to understand and predict wildlife disease movement; and develop testing protocols for samples suspected of carrying wildlife diseases.
The Secretary shall, not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, establish the Disease in Wildlife Trade Task Force to carry out the following purposes: Develop a comprehensive surveillance system of wildlife imports to the United States. Perform risk analysis of wildlife diseases. Perform data analysis relating to wildlife disease surveillance. Provide technical assistance to Federal, State, Tribal, and local governments carrying out wildlife disease prevention and enforcement with respect to the wildlife trade.
The Task Force shall be composed of a representative of each of the following: The United States Fish and Wildlife Service. The United States Geological Survey. The Secretary of State. The Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development. The Secretary of Homeland Security. Such State and Tribal wildlife agencies that submit a request to the Secretary to participate in the Task Force as do not exceed 1 State representative per regions of the United States as identified by the Director and 1 Tribal representative per region of the United States identified by the Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
The Director of the Centers for Disease Control. The Secretary of Agriculture. The Secretary of Commerce. The Task Force shall, not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, submit to Congress a report on— the available quarantine facilities for animals with wildlife diseases, including through public-private partnerships; the sufficiency of such facilities to fulfill the purposes of this Act; and legislative and regulatory recommendations, determined in consultation with the Advisory Committee, to improve the availability of such facilities for Federal, State, and Tribal users.