Farmed Cervid Chronic Wasting Disease Management and Response Activities 2022 Cooperative Agreements | USDA APHIS 10025 VSSPRS00 22 0001

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The Farmed Cervid Chronic Wasting Disease Management and Response Activities 2022 Cooperative Agreements is a competitive USDA program run by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Veterinary Services (VS), designed to reduce the spread of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in farmed cervids such as deer and elk. The core purpose is practical disease control: building or strengthening surveillance systems, expanding and improving testing, and supporting coordinated management and response actions when CWD is suspected or confirmed. A notable feature of this opportunity is that it can also support indemnification and removal efforts for CWD-affected herds and CWD-exposed animals, as long as those actions are part of an overall CWD management plan and align with the federal requirements referenced in 9 CFR Part 55.2.

Funding is offered through cooperative agreements, meaning recipients should expect active involvement and coordination with the federal program rather than a hands-off grant. APHIS VS anticipated awarding about 4,800,000 total under this announcement. Individual proposals could request up to 250,000 each, and applicants were allowed to submit more than one proposal, but each submission had to be packaged and submitted as its own complete, separate application. This structure is intended to let eligible agencies break work into distinct projects, for example, one proposal focused on surveillance and sampling capacity and another focused on response planning, traceability, or herd cleanup.

Eligibility is limited to public entities with regulatory oversight or direct responsibility for farmed cervids. Specifically, the opportunity is open to state departments of agriculture, state animal health agencies, state departments of wildlife or natural resources, and federally recognized Native American Tribal governments. Native American Tribal organizations may also apply when they are representing federally recognized Tribal governments, as long as the Tribal government has the relevant oversight or direct responsibility for farmed cervids. In other words, the program is aimed at the government and quasi-government bodies that can actually implement policy, enforce animal health requirements, manage investigations, and coordinate disease response across producers and jurisdictions.

The activities supported by the program are broadly framed around prevention, early detection, and rapid containment. On the prevention and detection side, this includes creating or improving surveillance plans, increasing sample collection and lab submission, strengthening testing approaches, and improving the systems that track animals and herds so that exposed animals can be identified quickly. On the response side, the program supports implementing response plans after a detection, including the on-the-ground actions needed to contain infection and prevent further spread. The notice also makes room for applied work to improve the toolbox over time: funds may be used to research, develop, and evaluate techniques and strategies that help prevent and control CWD in farmed cervids, which can include piloting improved practices or evaluating how well specific management approaches work in real-world conditions.

Key identifying details from the announcement include the funding opportunity title listed above, the opportunity number USDA APHIS 10025 VSSPRS00 22 0001, the assistance listing (CFDA) number 10.025, and the designation as a discretionary opportunity using a cooperative agreement instrument under the agriculture activity category. The original closing date for applications was June 7, 2022, and the opportunity was created on April 7, 2022. Overall, the program is structured to help the agencies responsible for farmed cervid oversight move faster and more consistently on CWD surveillance, testing, and response, including the difficult but sometimes necessary steps of herd removal and indemnification when CWD is found or exposure is documented under an approved management plan.

• The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service in the agriculture sector is offering a public funding opportunity titled "Farmed Cervid Chronic Wasting Disease Management and Response Activities 2022 Cooperative Agreements" and is now available to receive applicants.
• Interested and eligible applicants and submit their applications by referencing the CFDA number(s): 10.025.
• This funding opportunity was created on 2022-04-07.
• Applicants must submit their applications by 2022-06-07. (Agency may still review applications by suitable applicants for the remaining/unused allocated funding in 2026.)
• Eligible applicants include: Others.

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