Award purpose. This cooperative agreement is directed toward accomplishing the following objectives addressed below: • approach for conducting national surveillance and response for animal health…

This Cooperative Agreement award, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) under the Plant and Animal Disease, Pest Control, and Animal Care Federal Grant Program (CFDA 10.025), is directed toward accomplishing national surveillance and response for animal health activities, with a focus on poultry. The $618,320 award to the Georgia Poultry Improvement Association, Inc. (doing business as the Georgia Poultry Laboratory Network) will support poultry flock surveillance, preparedness, response, and outreach efforts to protect American agriculture. Key deliverables include maintaining collection sites, conducting non-NPIP and NPIP serology and PCR surveillance, providing trace testing and epidemiological support, and developing standard operating procedures for responding to animal disease events. This funding will enable the recipient to serve as a critical resource for the Georgia Department of Agriculture, Georgia Poultry Federation, and Georgia poultry industry in protecting against endemic, foreign, zoonotic, and emerging diseases that could impact the agricultural sector.

Award purpose. This cooperative agreement is directed toward accomplishing the following objectives addressed below: • approach for conducting national surveillance and response for animal health activities including poultry surveillance programs. • provide for poultry flock surveillance, preparedness, response, and outreach necessary to protect american agriculture and accomplish VS mission goals. • prepare, maintain, and exercise state-level plans, standard operating procedures, response templates, and guidance documents for responding to endemic, foreign, zoonotic, and emerging disease or RE-emerging disease events impacting animal agriculture. • provide for monthly preventative maintenance and appropriate equipment training on depopulation equipment to include foamers and CO2 carts. 1. Activities to be performed. What activities will the recipient carry out to achieve the objectives of the cooperative agreement? Goals will be attained by performing non-npip and npip serology and PCR surveillance by maintaining current collection sites and on‐farm surveillance to meet surveillance sampling minimums for georgia poultry flocks. Gpln reports FAD consistent syndromes and ensures that USDA, VS, GA and the GDA saho are aware of the report and subsequent investigation in a timely manner. Gpln will provide surveillance, trace testing, epidemiology, and logistics, reporting and communication, data entry and outreach. 2. Deliverables and expected outcomes. Deliverables are products or events to be produced from the cooperative agreement such as reports, educational materials, websites, guidance documents, publications, functional exercises, workshops, online classes, and others. 3. Intended beneficiary(IES). Beneficiaries of this agreement include the georgia department of agriculture, the GA poultry federation, the GA poultry industry, the GA poultry producers, and processors. 4. Subrecipient activities, if known or specified at the time of award. If the award will result in subawards, then who are the sub-awardees and how does the subaward support the prime award? No sub-awards are provided for in the FY 25 GA poultry improvement cooperative agreement.