MARVIN MANDEL, Governor

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standards and regulations to govern the nation's great
seafood industry; and

WHEREAS, The United States Government, the State of
Maryland, the general public and our seafood industry
would benefit from a current, independent, factual
scientific study to determine sound microbiological
shellfish standards and defined ways and means of
implementing rules and regulations that would help to
reestablish the confidence of the general public in
shellfish products; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That
it petition the Congress of the United States to withhold
the FDA proposal from publication in the Federal Register
and prevent the FDA from promulgating or imposing rules
or regulations governing the United States shellfish
industry; and be it further

RESOLVED, That the Maryland General Assembly ask the
Congress of the United States to commission an
independent study group of reputable scientists, seafood
industry representatives (harvester and processors),
legal authorities, and members of the general public to
collect scientific data and recommend appropriate action
to protect the public health, and the seafood industry,
and include necessary funds for the commissions
activities; and, be it further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be sent to:
The President Pro tempore of the United States Senate and
the Speaker of the United States House of
Representatives; to the Chair man of the Committees on
Interior and Insular Affairs in either House of Congress;
and to each of the members of the Congress elected from
this State, to wit: Senators Charles McC. Mathias, Jr.;
and J. Glenn Beall, Jr., Senate Office Building,
Washington, D.C. 20510; Members of the House of
Representatives Robert E. Bauman, Clarence D. Long; Paul
S. Sarbanes; Marjorie S. Holt; Gladys N. Spellman;
Goodloe E. Byron; Parren J. Mitchell, and Gilbert Gude,
House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515; and be it
further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be sent to:
Dr. Neil Solomon, Secretary of Health and Mental Hygiene;
James B. Coulter, Secretary of Natural Resources;
Chesapeake Bay Seafood Industries Association, Easton,
Maryland; and The Maryland Watermen's Association, 13
School Street, Annapolis, Maryland 21401.

Approved May 15, 1975.