The Preliminary Environmental Assessment has been copied to the project folder along with a cover letter.
Comments are due by June 4 according to the news release.
Alternative A, the Proposed Action, features
- Implementation of a new HMAP
- Removal of excess animals to low AML
- Application of fertility control pesticides
- Sterilizing up to one fourth of the herd
- Skewing the sex ratio in favor of males
- Development of a new water source
The proposed HMAP is discussed in Appendix XIII of the EA.
Section 2.4.2.2 refers to a 2025 labeling amendment for GonaCon Equine, which may have changed the interval between treatments from 90 days to seven, but Western Horse Watchers has not been able to find it at the EPA website.
RELATED: Scoping Begins for Blue Wing HMAP.
UPDATE: The amendment changed the interval from 90 days to 7 days.
Western Horse Watchers Association 