In the July 17, 2015, Federal Register, USDA's APHIS released the supplemental environmental assessment ("EA") relative to an oral rabies vaccination field trial in New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Vermont, and West Virginia, necessary to evaluate whether the wildlife rabies vaccine will produce sufficient levels of population immunity against raccoon rabies. The EA analyzes expanding the trial to Ohio and increasing bait distribution density in West Virginia. Comments are due August 17, 2015.

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