Semi-Automatic Rifles for Feral Swine Program

This requirement supports the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Wildlife Services (WS), National Feral Swine Program (NFSP). Wildlife Services serves as the Nation�s wildlife damage management authority, and the NFSP is to protect agricultural and natural resources, property, animal health, and human health and safety by managing damage caused by feral swine in the United States and its Territories. NFSP has worked to reduce and eradicate feral swine, along with monitoring feral swine for pathogens that affect domestic swine, other livestock, and human health, impacting trade and commerce since 2014. Feral swine occur throughout most of the United States and many US territories. To support the NFSP damage management and potential emergency response activities due to a newly introduce foreign animal disease (FAD), USDA seeks to procure long rifles of differing calibers to help reduce feral swine populations and use as de…

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