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[CITE: 16USC4721]

 
                         TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
 
           CHAPTER 67--AQUATIC NUISANCE PREVENTION AND CONTROL
 
   SUBCHAPTER III--PREVENTION AND CONTROL OF AQUATIC NUISANCE SPECIES 
                                DISPERSAL
 
Sec. 4721. Establishment of Task Force


(a) Task Force

    There is hereby established an ``Aquatic Nuisance Species Task 
Force''.

(b) Membership

    Membership of the Task Force shall consist of--
        (1) the Director;
        (2) the Under Secretary;
        (3) the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency;
        (4) the Commandant of the United States Coast Guard;
        (5) the Assistant Secretary;
        (6) the Secretary of Agriculture; and
        (7) the head of any other Federal agency that the chairpersons 
    designated under subsection (d) of this section deem appropriate.

(c) Ex officio members

    The chairpersons designated under subsection (d) of this section 
shall invite representatives of the Great Lakes Commission, the Lake 
Champlain Basin Program, the Chesapeake Bay Program, the San Francisco 
Bay-Delta Estuary Program, and State agencies and other governmental 
entities to participate as ex officio members of the Task Force.

(d) Chairpersons

    The Director and the Under Secretary shall serve as co-chairpersons 
of the Task Force and shall be jointly responsible, and are authorized 
to undertake such activities as may be necessary, for carrying out this 
subchapter in consultation and cooperation with the other members of the 
Task Force.

(e) Memorandum of understanding

    Within six months of November 29, 1990, the Director and the Under 
Secretary shall develop a memorandum of understanding that describes the 
role of each in jointly carrying out this subchapter.

(f) Coordination

    Each Task Force member shall coordinate any action to carry out this 
subchapter with any such action by other members of the Task Force, and 
regional, State and local entities.

(Pub. L. 101-646, title I, Sec. 1201, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4765; 
Pub. L. 104-182, title III, Sec. 308(b), Aug. 6, 1996, 110 Stat. 1689; 
Pub. L. 104-332, Sec. 2(e)(2), (h)(1), Oct. 26, 1996, 110 Stat. 4085, 
4091.)

                       References in Text

    This subchapter, referred to in subsecs. (d) to (f), was in the 
original ``this subtitle'', meaning subtitle C (Secs. 1201-1209) of 
title I of Pub. L. 101-646, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 4765, which enacted 
this subchapter and amended section 42 of Title 18, Crimes and Criminal 
Procedure.


                               Amendments

    1996--Pub. L. 104-332, Sec. 2(h)(1), made technical amendment to 
Pub. L. 101-646, Sec. 1201, which enacted this section.
    Subsec. (b)(5) to (7). Pub. L. 104-332, Sec. 2(e)(2)(A), struck out 
``and'' at end of par. (5), added par. (6), and redesignated former par. 
(6) as (7).
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-332, Sec. 2(e)(2)(B), inserted ``the 
Chesapeake Bay Program, the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary Program,'' 
before ``and State agencies''.
    Pub. L. 104-182 inserted ``, the Lake Champlain Basin Program,'' 
after ``Great Lakes Commission''.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 4702 of this title.
