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Moved by:    Symens
Second by:    Ham
Action:    Prevailed by voice vote.

"      Section 1. The Department of Game, Fish and Parks and the Department of Agriculture are directed to develop a state prairie dog management plan. The plan shall formulate state management actions that will serve to prevent the prairie dog from being listed as a federal threatened species. If such plan or agreement contains provisions for incentive payments to private landowners for managing prairie dog habitat or restricts private landowner rights to use rodenticides on their property, the plan or agreement shall be submitted to the South Dakota Legislature, in bill form, for

approval, amendment, or rejection, prior to it becoming effective.

     Section 2. Nothing contained in this Act precludes the Department of Game, Fish and Parks or Department of Agriculture from performing their respective management responsibilities. However, to the extent that the provisions of § §  40-36-1, 40-36-9, and 34A-8-7 pertain to prairie dogs, the provisions of section 1 of this Act supersede any contradictory provision of such statutes."