Resource Number: 14621
Title: ISAC Memo to NISC: Considerations for NISC's future without ISAC
Publisher: National Invasive Species Council
Description: The Invasive Species Advisory Committee (isac) was established in 1999 by Executive Order 131121
and furthered by Executive Order 137512 to provide consultation, feedback, information on particular issues, and expert advice generally for consideration by the National Invasive Species Council
(nisc).3 isac is composed of distinguished, experienced volunteers from various organizations that
are appointed to serve on the Committee by the Secretary of the Interior. Their task is to develop
assessments on many aspects of the invasive species issue in the United States and to provide recommendations for the management, control, and response to key invasive species as articulated in
the Executive Orders. However, as of April 2019, the principal representatives of the nisc co-chair
departments (Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce) decided to place isac on administratively
inactive (i.e., suspended) status. The justification for this action was a constraint in nisc Secretariat
funding and the staff capacity necessary to maintain isac’s operations. Without an external advisory
committee providing expert recommendations to nisc, effective nisc-agency policies and programs
are at risk in an environment of already heightened and increasing threats and risks from invasive
species to human health and welfare, ecosystem stability, food security, and commerce.
Last Updated: June 21, 2019
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