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Brooke Rollins: “Normally a facility takes two years to permit, four years to…”

Featuring: Brooke Rollins, Republican | United States Secretary of Agriculture | National

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Governor Abbott and USDA Secretary Rollins announce escalated response to Texas screwworm outbreak

Published | Video Starts at 1:06:20

That is the goal. Now, I want to underscore, most people would say that is an impossible goal, that Normally a facility takes two years to permit, four years to build. We got way behind, you know, 100 million flies out of Panama. Everyone thought that would be enough to keep it eradicated. It's we haven't had it here for 60 years. (1:06:20–1:06:25)

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Asserts that it normally takes two years to permit and four years to build a facility.

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