This report has been a long time coming, but is the right decision. theadvancedapes, I assume you see this as a positive development?
I agree that this is the way to go.
Although there are no viable replacements for some animal models, I can't think of many situations were chimpanzees can provide particularly valuable data. Ethical considerations aside, just getting a large enough group of chimps so that the statistics are valid is prohibitivly expensive.