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El gobierno de Iowa proclama una segunda extension de la situacion de 
desastre en ese estado. Es de destacar que acumulan dos semanas sin 
brotes.
PAstor
Gov. Branstad extends disaster proclamation for bird flu
Date:
June 29, 2015
Second extension made by the governor is effective through July 31, 2015
(DES MOINES) – Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad today announced that he is 
extending the State of Disaster Emergency in response to the avian flu 
outbreak through July 31, 2015. This is the second extension the 
governor has made to the original disaster proclamation. The governor’s 
original disaster declaration was set to expire Sunday, May 31, 2015, 
but he extended it until July 1, 2015, on May 29, 2015. The latest 
disaster proclamation can be read here.
The extension comes less than two weeks after Branstad requested a 
Presidential Disaster Designation for four Iowa counties hit by the 
virus. In bipartisan fashion, members of Iowa’s Congressional Delegation 
wrote a letter to President Obama encouraging him to grant the 
governor’s request on June 19, 2015.
The proclamation of disaster emergency does the following:
    Activates the disaster response and recovery aspect of the Iowa 
Homeland Security and Emergency Management Department’s (HSEMD) Iowa 
Emergency Response Plan.
    Authorizes the use and deployment of all available state resources, 
supplies, equipment, and materials as are deemed reasonably necessary by 
the Iowa Secretary of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS) and Iowa 
HSEMD in order to do the following:
A.      Track and monitor instances of confirmed highly pathogenic avian 
influenza  throughout the state of Iowa and the country,
B.      Establish importation restrictions and prohibitions in respect 
to animals suspected of suffering from this disease,
C.      Rapidly detect any presumptive or confirmed cases of highly 
pathogenic avian influenza within Iowa’s borders,
D.     Contain the spread of highly pathogenic avian influenza within 
our state through depopulation, disinfections, and disposal of livestock 
carcasses,
E.      Engage in detection activities, contact tracking, and other 
investigatory work to stop the spread of highly pathogenic avian 
influenza within our state, and
F.       Eliminate the disease in those disaster counties where it has 
been found and lessen the risk of this disease spreading to our state as 
a whole.
    Temporarily authorizes the Iowa HSEMD, the Iowa Department of 
Transportation (DOT), the Iowa Department of Public Safety (DPS), the 
Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR), Iowa Department of Public 
Health (IDPH), other state agencies, and local law enforcement agencies 
and private contractors employed by the same to remove and/or dispose of 
live animals and animal carcasses on publicly or privately owned land 
when those live animals and/or carcasses threaten public health or 
safety.
    Authorizes the Iowa HSEMD, the Iowa DOT, the Iowa DPS, the Iowa DNR, 
IDPH, other state agencies, and local law enforcement agencies to 
implement stop movement and stop loading restrictions and other control 
zone measures as are reasonably deemed necessary, including establishing 
buffer zones, checkpoints, and cleaning and disinfecting operations at 
checkpoints and borders surrounding any quarantine areas established by 
the IDALS or at any other location in the state of Iowa, in order to 
stop the spread of this contagious disease.
    Authorizes state agencies to assist the IDALS in disinfection, 
depopulation, and livestock carcass disposal efforts.
    Temporarily waives restrictions to allow for the timely and 
efficient disposal of poultry carcasses.
7.      Temporarily suspends the regulatory provisions pertaining to 
hours of service for commercial vehicle drivers hauling poultry 
carcasses infected with or exposed to highly pathogenic avian influenza 
or while hauling loads otherwise related to the response to this 
disaster during its duration, subject to certain conditions outlined in 
the disaster proclamation.
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Tags:
avian flu
bird flu
virus
disaster

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