Hearing on Implementation of National Invasive Species Act

The Subcommittees on Water Resources and on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure will conduct a joint hearing on May 15, 2002 on implementation of the National Invasive Species Act of 1996. That act, among other things, established a voluntary program for ballast water management by ships calling in U.S. ports. It also provided that the program should become mandatory if participation in the voluntary program is inadequate.