įind information and updates about current non-COVID natural disasters, man-made incidents (including cyber-attacks), and public health emergencies. Please continue to use the provider-specific fact sheets for information about COVID-19 Public Health Emergency (PHE) waivers and flexibilities. Additionally, on January 30, 2023, the Biden Administration announced its intent to end the national emergency and public health emergency declarations on May 11, 2023, related to the COVID-19 pandemic.ĬMS is committed to updating supporting resources and providing updates as soon as possible. This legislation provides more than $1.7 trillion to fund various aspects of the federal government, including an extension of the major telehealth waivers and the Acute Hospital Care at Home (AHCaH) individual waiver that were initiated during the federal public health emergency (PHE). 2716, the Consolidated Appropriations Act (CAA) for Fiscal Year 2023. On Thursday, December 29, 2022, President Biden signed into law H.R.
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Update : The federal PHE for COVID-19, declared under Section 319 of the Public Health Service Act, expired at the end of the day on May 11, 2023.
It also lists lakes and species that were tested and found to contain safe levels of mercury - those species in those lakes can be consumed as often as they’re caught.Archived Waivers and Flexibilities related to the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Public Health Emergency (PHE) can be found at: To learn about the specific guidelines for your favorite Oklahoma fishing spot, you can read the most recent Mercury in Fish Guide. Those populations are more sensitive to mercury. The guidelines are also different for children under 15 and people who are nursing, pregnant or able to become pregnant.
“It's really important that people look at the advisory for the lake where they intend to go fishing, because you can't look at Atoka and think that it will be the same advisory for Broken Bow,” Hatfield said. So most of the advisories aim to limit how often people eat large, predatory species like many bass and catfish. Predatory fish also tend to have higher mercury content, because they eat other fish and absorb their mercury. “The bigger the fish, the older they are, so they’ve had more time for that mercury to accumulate,” Hatfield said. Then it dissolves into water, where fish absorb more and more over their lifetimes. Mercury is a metal that gets into the atmosphere from mining, manufacturing, coal-fired utilities and sometimes volcanoes. “We want people to have all the information they can to make good, healthy decisions for themselves and their families.” “We certainly encourage Oklahomans to go fish, to eat, the fish they catch, but to be mindful of their choices,” said Erin Hatfield, the DEQ’s Communications Director.
The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality monitors mercury levels in many species in lakes across the state and releases annual updates about how often people can safely eat those fish.
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