emv@msen.com (Edward Vielmetti) (06/01/91)
Reprinted (without permission) from the Ann Arbor News. (ann arbor news bureau) WASHINGTON -- Funds for a five-year study of zebra mussels in Saginaw Bay have been restored by a House Appropriations subcommitte, greatly enhancing the prospects of the project continuing next year. The Bush administration recommended no funding in 1992 for the study, being coordinated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administrations's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory in Ann Arbor. That would hve ended critical reserach into the life cycle of the zebra mussel afer just one year, according to the lab's director, Alfred Beeton. Scientists from the lab and several other federal agencies have been trying to find ways to stop the rapid spread of zebra mussels in the Great Lakes. the tiny mussels proliferate on hard surfaces, clogging water-intake pipes and drainage systems. The House Appropriations subcommitte that funds the NOAA budget voted Thursday to provie $1 million for the study next year, along with $3 million for other research on mussels by colleges that recieve federal Sea Grant money. The subcommitte also voted to increase funding to control sea lampreys. --- end of story -- anyone from the Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory on the net who cares to comment? i don't know exactly what their net connections look like, it might be through OMNET or something goofy like that. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, vice president for research, MSEN Inc. emv@msen.com any typoes in the above are my own.