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Code of Colorado Regulations eDocket
Details of Tracking Number
2024-00254
CCR details
| Tracking Number |
2024-00254 |
| Type of Filing |
Permanent Rule |
| Department |
400 Department of Natural Resources |
| Agency |
406 Colorado Parks and Wildlife (406 Series, Wildlife) |
| CCR Number |
2 CCR 406-10 |
| CCR Title |
CHAPTER W-10 - NONGAME WILDLIFE |
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Proposed rule
| Notice Filed with SOS |
05/29/2024 |
| Additional Information |
AddInfoAttach2024-00254.pdf
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| Statutory Authority |
See attached |
| Description of Subjects/Issues |
Chapter W-10 - “Nongame Wildlife” 2 CCR 406-10 - see attached |
| Purpose/Objective of Rule |
Effective December 8, 2023, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service adopted rules designating Colorado’s gray wolves as an experimental population under section 10(j) of the federal Endangered Species Act. The 10(j) rule provides management flexibility that is a critical component to the success of Colorado’s Wolf Restoration and Management Plan and on which other components of the Plan depend.
The 10(j) rule authorizes the take of wolves caught “in the act of attacking” livestock or working dogs. In May 2023, the Parks and Wildlife Commission adopted a state regulation defining “in the act of attacking.” In doing so, the Commission inadvertently omitted “or working dogs” from part of the state definition. The purpose of this emergency rulemaking is to align CPW’s rule W-10:1000.D.2 definition of “in the act of attacking” with the federal 10(j) rule definition by adding the underlined text below:
In the act of attacking means the actual biting, wounding, grasping, or killing of livestock or working dogs, or chasing, molesting or harassing by wolves that would indicate to a reasonable person that such biting, wounding, grasping, or killing of livestock or working dogs is likely to occur at any moment.
These regulations replace the emergency regulation adopted at the June 2024 Commission meeting with permanent regulation. |
| Basis And Purpose |
BasisAndPurposeAttachment2024-00254.docx
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| Submitted in response to issues raised by COLS/OLLS? |
No
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| Is this rule adopted in response to recent legislation? |
No
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| Hearing Date |
07/18/2024 |
| Hearing Time |
08:00 AM |
| Hearing Location |
Rio Blanco County Fairfield Complex, 200 Main Street, Meeker, CO 81641 |
| Contact Name |
Hilary Hernandez |
| Contact Title |
Regulations Manager |
| Contact Telephone |
3032917226 |
| Contact email |
hilary.hernandez@state.co.us |
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Adopted rule
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