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Description: Report with results of a study of water's role in transporting chronic wasting disease prions
Law: 2021 Minn. Laws 1st Spl. Sess. Chap. 1 Art. 2 Sec. 9(d)(4)
Agency(ies)/Supplier(s): University of Minnesota
Due Date: 01/15/2024
Frequency: One time
Subjects: Environment/Natural Resources - Water Resources
Wildlife & Hunting
Committee/Agency Jurisdiction: Environment and Natural Resources
Environment and Natural Resources Policy and Legacy Finance – Senate
Legacy Finance Division – House of Representatives
Note: The study is to include: (1) identifying mechanisms for the accumulation, persistence, and spread of chronic wasting disease prions through waterways; (2) characterizing chronic wasting disease prion abundance in waterways immediately downstream of regions known to be positive for chronic wasting disease; (3) modeling and forecasting chronic wasting disease contamination and spread based on landscape ecology and hydrology; and (4) developing and evaluating remediation strategies for prion-contaminated waterways.

Item(s) Received

TitlePublisher(s)Publication DateCoverageDate ReceivedReport LinkCall #
Clean Water Fund Final Report [to study water's role in transporting chronic wasting disease prions] University of Minnesota January 2024 01/16/2024 24-0100.pdf