1. (1) "Approved test" means a diagnostic test for Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) surveillance that the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) accepts, and the state veterinarian approves.
2. (2) "CWD-exposed animal" means a domesticated elk that commingled with a CWD-positive animal within the previous 60 months.
3. (3) "CWD-exposed herd" means a herd in which a CWD-positive animal or a CWD-exposed animal resided for any period within 60 months before that animal's determination as CWD-positive or CWD-exposed.
4. (4) "CWD-positive animal" means a domesticated elk that has had a diagnosis of CWD confirmed by an official CWD test.
5. (5) "CWD-positive herd" means a herd in which a CWD-positive animal resided within the previous 60 months.
6. (6) "CWD-suspect herd" means a herd in which a suspect domesticated elk resides.
7. (7) "Dead tested" means an elk that has at least one testable sample for CWD that has died of natural causes, or an elk facility euthanized it.
8. (8) "Elk farm" means a facility that raises domesticated elk but does not harvest them via hunting.
9. (9) "Harvest" means to kill by hunting or slaughter.
10. (10) "Herd of origin" means the herd that an imported animal has resided in, or does reside in, before importation.
11. (11) "Hunt killed" means any elk reported as harvested on a harvest permit.
12. (12) "Hunt killed tested" means any elk that has at least one testable sample for CWD, reported as harvested on a harvest permit.
13. (13) "Missing" means an elk recorded on departmental records that is absent during physical inventory and presumed dead and untested for inventory and testing compliance calculations.
14. (14) "Moved out" means any elk sold or sent from an elk facility to another elk facility.
15. (15) "Official slaughter facility" means a place where livestock slaughter occurs under state or federal inspection.
16. (16) "Raised" means possession of domesticated elk for any purpose other than hunting.
17. (17) "Slaughtered" means any elk harvested for meat on an elk farm or at a licensed slaughter establishment and does not include elk harvested through hunting that are documented on a harvest permit.
18. (18) "Slaughtered tested" means any slaughtered elk for which at least one sample is testable for CWD.
19. (19) "Trace Back Herd" or "Source Herd" means a herd of Cervidae where an animal affected with CWD formerly resided.
20. (20) "Trace Forward Herd" means a herd of Cervidae that received exposed animals originating from a CWD-positive herd within five years before the diagnosis of CWD in the positive herd or from the identified date of entry of CWD into the positive herd.
21. (21) "Untestable sample" means a sample collected for CWD testing that does not meet the department's criteria for valid testing due to poor collection, preservation, or other factors.

In addition to the definitions in Section 4-39-102, the following definitions apply to this rule:

KEY: chronic wasting disease, elk, inspections, domesticated elk facility, domesticated elk, licensing

Date of Last Change: October 22, 2025

Notice of Continuation: December 28, 2021

Authorizing, and Implemented or Interpreted Law: 4-39-106; 4-39-303(6)