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ARTICLE CONTENTS
[Pages 45-68]
TOP OF ARTICLE
Introduction
I. Brief Summary of the AWA
A. Role of the United States Department of Agriculture
B. Animals Regulated Under the AWA
C. Persons and Facilities Regulated Under the AWA
1. Regulating Animal Dealers
2. Regulating Research Facilities
3. Regulating Federal Research Facilities
II. The Legislative History of the AWA
III. Protecting the Animals Used in Survival Training
Under the AWA
A. Definition of Animal
B. Farm Animal Exception
C. Research and Experimentation
IV. AWA’s Regulation of Animal Dealers
V. Classifying the Military as an Animal Dealer
A. Satisfying the Statutory Definition of an Animal Dealer
B. Obstacles to Classifying the Military as an Animal Dealer
1. USDA’s Focus on Regulating Only Dealers Who Resell Animals
2. USDA’s Refusal to Regulate Public Agencies as Dealers
3. Wild or Exotic Animal Exception
VI. AWA’s Regulation of Federal Research Facilities
A. Definition of Research Facility and Federal Research Facility
B. Regulation of Federal Research Facilities
VII. Regulating the Military as a Federal Research Facility
Conclusion
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