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DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND
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NATURAL RESOURCES
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ADVISORY BOARD MEETING
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TRANSCRIPT OF PROCEEDINGS
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12 Location: State Capitol Auditorium
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600 Dexter Avenue,
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Montgomery, Alabama
15 Date:
February 6, 2010
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8:56 a.m.
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23 Before: Victoria M. Castillo, CCR #17
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CHAIRMAN MOULTRIE: I'd like
2 to start the meeting and call to order the
3 February 6th, 2010 meeting of the
4 Conservation Advisory Board will come to
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I'd like to welcome everybody to
7 Montgomery. The Board is glad that you're
8 able to be here today.
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The invocation will be given by
10 Bill Hatley. The posting of the colors and
11 the presentation by the Department of
12 Conservation and Natural Resources Honor
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And right now I'd like to call
15 on Commissioner Lawley to tell you a little
16 bit about the honor guard before we get
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COMMISSIONER LAWLEY: Thank
19 you, Dan. About a year ago John Thomas
20 Jenkins came to me and said he had met with
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MR. BLANKENSHIP: That's
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MR. ANDRESS: We're going to
14 look at some test materials from other
15 states, and there are other states -16 surrounding states -- that also do the same
17 sort of thing. And these regulations are
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And those tests will be probably
21 very similar to what you would experience
22 if you went to Tennessee or Florida.
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MR. BLANKENSHIP: I knew
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1 Florida was going to come in there.
2 They're at the top of the list.
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CHAIRMAN MOULTRIE: Thank
4 you, Mr. Blankenship.
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MR. BLANKENSHIP: Thank you,
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DR. MAY: Alan -8
MR. ANDRESS: Yes, sir.
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DR. MAY: Do the UDSA
10 regulations, are they the same as the
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MR. ANDRESS: The USDA
13 actually -- they regulate. They do
14 regulate people who exhibit animals for
15 public exhibition. Their regulations are
16 nonspecific. They don't include any real
17 specific information about the size, the
18 gauge wire, or any other particular devices
19 that have to be in place to ensure security
20 or humane treatment of animals.
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So we did not feel like that the
22 UDSA regulations were a lot of help to us
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And occasionally -- and I will
2 say most of these exhibitors do a good
3 job. In meeting with them, our experience
4 has been most of them are in compliance
5 with what's proposed or very close to it.
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