MARKUP on:

• H.R.3176, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to determine ways of restoring the natural wetlands conditions in the Kealia Pond National Wildlife Refuge, Hawaii.

  Staff Briefing Memorandum
  
  Remarks of Rep. Jim Saxton, R-NJ, Chairman

• H.R.3292, to provide for the establishment of the Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge in West Feliciana Parish, Louisiana.

  Staff Briefing Memorandum
  
  Remarks of Rep. Jim Saxton, R-NJ, Chairman

WITNESS LIST

SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES CONSERVATION, WILDLIFE AND OCEANS

Section 118 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act

Staff Briefing Memorandum

PANEL I

Andrew Rosenberg
Deputy Assistant Administrator of Fisheries
National Marine Fisheries Service

John E. Reynolds, Ph.D. Chairman
Marine Mammal Commission

PANEL II

Pat White
Maine Lobstermen's Association

Nina Young
Center for Marine Conservation

Bill Foster
Mid-Atlantic Coastal Gillnet Industry

Sharon Young
Humane Society of the United States

John Calambokidis
Cascadia Research Collective

WITNESS LIST

SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES CONSERVATION, WILDLIFE AND OCEANS

Section 119 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act

Staff Briefing Memorandum

PANEL I

Penelope Dalton
Assistant Administrator of Fisheries
National Marine Fisheries Service

David B. Allen
Regional Director
Fish and Wildlife Service

PANEL II

Caleb Pungowiyi
Chairman
IPCoMM Reauthorization Committee

Charlie Johnson
Alaska Nanuuq Commission

Monica Riedel
Alaska Native Harbor Seal Commission

Alvin Osterback
Aleut Marine Mammal

Lianna Jack
Alaska Sea Otter & Steller Sea Lion Commission

NOT APPEARING, STATEMENT SUBMITTED FOR THE RECORD

Daniel Alex
Executive Director
Cook Inlet Marine Mammal Council