The explanatory statement for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, one of six spending bills approved by the Senate yesterday and signed into law today, provides $141,972,000 for the program in FY24, down from $147,888,000 in FY23.
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With a growing number of animals in off-range holding, thanks to aggressive efforts this year to force them from their lawful homes, the reduction may necessitate some changes to the FY24 roundup schedule.
The statement indicates that up to $11,000,000 can be spent on the use of ovary-killing pesticides such as PZP, which it describes as “a robust and humane fertility control strategy of reversible immunocontraceptive vaccines.”
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