Mussel Money May Be Saved

From May, 1995 (Update #24)

WASHINGTON, D.C. - The National Sea Grant College Program recently approved funding for zebra mussel research and outreach projects throughout the eastern United States, including four Wisconsin zebra mussel research projects and three outreach projects. One of these outreach projects includes funding for this newsletter, as well as its expanded distribution and coverage. Until very recently, these funds were in danger of being rescinded by the United States Senate, though the funds had not been included in a rescission package already passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. However, as part of the final compromise package, which enabled the Senate to pass a FY 95 rescission bill totaling more than $16 billion, a bipartisan coalition of Senators successfully restored $2 million in Sea Grant funding for efforts related to aquatic nuisance species. To offset the restoration of funds to Sea Grant, $2 million was taken from the NOAA construction account. The FY 95 rescission bill now goes to a House-Senate conference committee, where significant differences between the respective versions of the bills must be worked out.

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The Zebra Mussel Update was a 4- to 8-page quarterly national newsletter published by the University of Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute from May 1990 through May 1997. The ZMU documented the spread of the zebra mussel -- an exotic nuisance mussel -- through North America's freshwater environments, especially the Great Lakes, and on efforts to control it.