SUBCOMMITTEE ON FEDERAL SERVICES,
POST OFFICE, AND CIVIL SERVICE

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON
GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
UNITED STATES SENATE

ONE HUNDRED SECOND CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

1423
12

44-900

JUNE 5, 1991

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Franklin G. Polk, Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel
Michal Sue Prosser, Chief Clerk

SUBCOMMITTEE ON FEDERAL SERVICES, POST OFFICE, AND CIVIL

Robert Melland, Associate Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspec-
tion Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., accompa-
nied by Glen Lee, Deputy Administrator for Plant Protection and Quaran-
tine, and John Duncan, Director, Legislative and Public Affairs........
Hon. Daniel K. Inouye, a United States Senator from the State of Hawaii
Harold J. Hughes, General Counsel, United States Postal Service, Washing-
ton, D.C., accompanied by Kenneth Dowd, Inspector, Postal Inspection Serv-
ice.
Ilima A. Piianaia, Deputy to the Chairperson, Board of Agriculture, State of
Hawaii...
James Nakatani, President, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Honolulu,
Hawaii.

Kelvin H. Taketa, Vice President, Director of Pacific Region, the Nature
Conservancy, Honolulu, Hawaii.....

James Waltman, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Hawaii State Office, the
National Audubon Society, Honolulu, Hawaii

Dr. Isi A. Siddiqui, Assistant Director, California Department of Food and
Agriculture, Sacramento, California
Paul B. Engler, Executive Secretary, California Citrus Quality Council, Clare-
mont, California

ALPHABETICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Engler, Paul B.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Hughes, Harold J.:

Testimony

Prepared statement with attachment

Inouye, Hon. Daniel K.:

Testimony.

Prepared statement

Melland, Robert:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Nakatani, James:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Piianaia, Ilima A.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Siddiqui, Dr. Isi A.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

Taketa, Kelvin A.:

Testimony

Prepared statement

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