search and development for the environmentally sound control of 

 zebra mussels at public facilities. 



In addition to the program, the task force was to convene a panel 

 of representatives to help the task force implement the Great 

 Lakes' provisions of the Act. The Great Lakes panel was formally 

 convened in November 1991. The panel provides a crucial link and 

 has been an instrumental force in the basin. 



The Act also establishes an aquatic nuisance species manage- 

 ment plans and grants program whereby States can receive partial 

 funding for management plans. The State of New York submitted a 

 draft plan to the task force for review. We have also completed the 

 intentional introduction policy review that is required under the 

 Act. 



A final provision of the Act is development of a brown tree snake 

 control program. The committee has been convened and is current- 

 ly developing a control program. 



In closing, the waters of the United States are a resource of im- 

 measurable economic, environmental, and aesthetic value. The task 

 force is committed to protecting our waters from the threat of 

 exotic species. 



Mr. Chairman, thank you for the opportunity to testify. 



Mr. LiPiNSKi. Thank you very much for your testimony. 



And I would like to state at this time that Ms. Kimball's testimo- 

 ny is a lot more extensive than what she has stated for us here ver- 

 bally, and we will be incorporating her entire testimony into the 

 record of these proceedings. We will do that now, if there are no 

 objections, and I am sure there are no objections from anyone. The 

 same will be true for everyone else's testimony. We will incorpo- 

 rate your full testimony as part of the record, even though you will 

 be summarizing only a small portion of it. 



[The statement of Ms. Kimball may be found at end of hearing.] 



Mr. LiPiNSKi. Our next witness will be Dr. James T. Carlton. Dr. 

 Carlton. 



STATEMENT OF JAMES CARLTON, DIRECTOR, MARITIME STUDIES 

 PROGRAM, WILLIAMS COLLEGE, MYSTIC SEAPORT 



Mr. Carlton. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am the principal in- 

 vestigator of the shipping study mandated under the Nonindigen- 

 ous Aquatic Nuisance Species Act on the role of shipping in intro- 

 ducing exotic species to U.S. waters. 



In the Coast Guard-funded shipping study, we estimated how 

 much ballast water is arriving and where it comes from, the risk it 

 poses, and what to do about it. Every hour that we speak this 

 morning, over one and a half million gallons of ballast water con- 

 taining alien aquatic animals and plants from all over the world 

 are released into U.S. waters. 



A few miles from this room in the past several weeks we have 

 found ships releasing in the Chesapeake Bay fish from Liverpool 

 and Israel, crabs from Korea, and a great variety of other marine 

 life from Spain, Belgium, Egypt and Panama. 



In the sea grant-funded study in Oregon, we found representa- 

 tives of every major group of aquatic organisms in seawater ballast. 

 And with your permission, I would like to enter into the record an 



