you can only fulfill this goal if you have access to the information and if the public then has information to your reports.

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Invasive species are a significant threat to our national economy, to environmental resources, and to the public health.

Efficiently leveraging our resources to combat invasive species is critical with an eye toward eradication and long-term control.

It is no secret that climate change has strong, well-established connections to invasive species on land and in water.

NEPA is a very important process, but when the process gets in the way of biology that's very difficult to accept.

They cost the United States billions of dollars in damages each year, some research suggests over $120 billion.

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You are spending so much of the budget fighting the fires that you have less budget to maybe do that kind of management.

What we're saying is invasive species is a very similar process, and clearly in Senator Barrasso's bill this is outlined with categorical exclusions.

I think it is.

That is what we need.