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and the administration must consider comprehensive actions to 

 hEilt the flow of invasive and threatening species. 



We must encourage interagency coordination and cooperation at 

 the State and Federal levels. Federal agencies should work cre- 

 atively to solve jurisdictional problems. We should provide the fi- 

 nancial resources both for research and for land management agen- 

 cy operations, and we must institute education and enforcement ef- 

 forts equal to the task. Your testimonies have helped in these re- 

 spects and will certainly be helpful to the Committee. 



Today's testimony has been useful and productive. Next Tuesday, 

 March 15th, I will chair the second hearing on harmful non-indige- 

 nous species in the United States. We shall have the opportunity 

 to hear from OTA as well as several of the Federal agencies respon- 

 sible for the care of our natural resources. I encourage you all to 

 attend. 



I thank all of our witnesses again for the excellent testimony, es- 

 pecially your recommendations and observations. We will have 

 some questions for the record, and I will appreciate your coopera- 

 tion in responding. 



The Committee will keep the record open for 30 working days to 

 receive additional written testimony. 



If there are no further questions or comments, this concludes to- 

 day's hearing, and the Committee will stand in recess subject to 

 the call of the Chair. 



[Whereupon, at 12:39 p.m., the Committee was adjourned subject 

 to the call of the Chair.] 



