1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Chronic Wasting Disease Transmission in Cervidae Study Act . 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Academy The term Academy means the National Academy of Sciences. (2) Cervid The term cervid means any species within the family Cervidae. (3) Chronic wasting disease The term chronic wasting disease means the animal disease afflicting deer, elk, and moose populations that— (A) is a transmissible disease of the nervous system resulting in distinctive lesions in the brain; and (B) belongs to the group of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, which group includes scrapie, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. (4) Secretaries The term Secretaries means— (A) the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Administrator of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; and (B) the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Director of the United States Geological Survey. 3. Chronic wasting disease transmission in cervidae resource study (a) Study (1) In general The Secretaries shall enter into an arrangement with the Academy under which the Academy shall conduct, and submit to the Secretaries a report describing the findings of, a special resource study to identify the predominant pathways and mechanisms of the transmission of chronic wasting disease in wild, captive, and farmed populations of cervids in the United States. (2) Requirements The arrangement under paragraph (1) shall provide that the actual expenses incurred by the Academy in conducting the study under paragraph (1) shall be paid by the Secretaries. (b) Contents of the study The study under subsection (a) shall— (1) with respect to wild, captive, and farmed populations of cervids in the United States, identify— (A) (i) the pathways and mechanisms for the transmission of chronic wasting disease within live cervid populations and cervid products, which may include pathways and mechanisms for transmission from Canada