The proposed Department of Defense legislation would not exempt the military from the Endangered Species Act.

And I thank you to all of you this morning for appearing and giving your testimony before the committee.

And I would ask you, Secretary Garman: Does the Department support the expansion of the ESPC authority to the non-building uses?

As Mr. Keith has pointed out, this energy savings performance contract has been a very useful mechanism for improving the Federal energy efficiency.

Unfortunately, our seafood seems to get lumped into the same kind of generic categories.

Since we are talking about seafood, I mentioned just very briefly in the opening that the seafood industry in Alaska is a key industry for us.

In Alaska we don't seem to have, at least with certain of our fisheries we don't seem to have the levels of mercury.

I am looking forward to the opportunity to work with you on some issues that are of particular interest to my State.

It is my understanding that this standard was adopted with very little science behind it, if you will, discussion, or actual study.