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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D984-D986 on Sept. 16, 1998.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
TRANSPORTATION SAFETY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine concluded hearings to examine the effects of fatigue on operators of trucks and rail equipment, and proposed legislation to establish a comprehensive, system-wide fatigue management plan on Class I and II freight railroads and carriers providing commuter or intercity passenger service by the year 2000, after receiving testimony from Jolene M. Molitoris, Administrator, Federal Railroad Administration, and George L. Reagle, Associate Administrator for Motor Carriers, Federal Highway Administration, both of the Department of Transportation; Vernon S. Ellingstad, Director, Office of Research and Engineering, National Transportation Safety Board; Daphne Izer, Parents Against Tired Truckers, Lisbon Falls, Maine; Mark R. Rosekind, Alertness Solutions, Cupertino, California; Susan M. Coughlin, ATA Foundation, Alexandria, Virginia; and Charles E. Dettmann, Association of American Railroads, Clarence V. Monin, Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, on behalf of the Transportation Trades Department (AFL-CIO), and LaMont Byrd, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, all of Washington, D.C.
REFORMULATED GASOLINE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to examine the use of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) in gasoline and S. 1576, to amend the Clean Air Act to permit the exclusive application of California State regulations regarding reformulated gasoline in certain areas within the State, after receiving testimony from Senator Feinstein: Representative Bilbray; John D. Dunlap III, California Environmental Protection Agency Air Resources Board, Sacramento; Edward O. Sullivan, Maine Department of Environmental Protection, Augusta; Daniel S. Greenbaum, Health Effects Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Al Jessel, Chevron Products Company, San Francisco, California; and Douglas A. Durante, Clean Fuels Development Coalition, Arlington, Virginia.
U.S. ANTI-DRUG INTERDICTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps, Narcotics and Terrorism concluded joint hearings with the United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control to examine United States anti-drug interdiction efforts and S. 2341, authorizing funds for fiscal years 1999 through 2001 to support enhanced drug interdiction efforts in the major transit countries and support a comprehensive supply eradication and crop substitution program in source countries, after receiving testimony from Barry R. McCaffrey, Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; Brian E. Sheridan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict; Donnie R. Marshall, Acting Deputy Administrator, Drug Enforcement Administration, Department of Justice; William R. Brownfield, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs; Samuel H. Banks, Deputy Commissioner, United States Customs Service, Department of the Treasury; Adm. James M. Loy, Commandant, United States Coast Guard, Department of Transportation; Henry L. Hinton, Jr., Assistant Comptroller General, National Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; and Barry D. Crane and A. Rex Rivolo, both of the Institute for Defense Analyses, Washington, D.C.
RADIATION FALLOUT MANAGEMENT
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations concluded hearings to examine the National Cancer Institute's management of a scientific study which assessed the radiation effects of nuclear weapons tests, after receiving testimony from Senator Harkin; Barry L. Johnson, Assistant Surgeon General/
Assistant Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, William F. Raub, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science Policy, and Richard D. Klausner, Director, and Bruce Wachholz, Chief, Radiation Effects Branch, both of the National Cancer Institute, all of the Department of Health and Human Services; and F. Owen Hoffman, SENES Oak Ridge, Inc., Oak Ridge, Tennessee, former Consultant, National Cancer Institute.
COMPUTER EXPORT CONTROL
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International Security, Proliferation, and Federal Services concluded hearings to examine a General Accounting Office report on the Administration's 1995 decision to revise United States export controls on high performance computers, after receiving testimony from Harold J. Johnson, Associate Director, International Relations and Trade Issues, National Security and International Affairs Division, General Accounting Office; and William Reinsch, Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration.
IMMIGRATION DETENTION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Immigration concluded oversight hearings on the structure and management of the Immigration and Naturalization Service detention system and the implementation of the mandatory criminal alien detention provisions that were included in the Illegal Immigration Reform Act of 1996, after receiving testimony from Doris Meissner, Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service, Department of Justice; Wendy A. Young, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children; Eleanor Acer, Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, and Sam Waterston, both of New York, New York; Police Chief David Lon Walker, Marshalltown, Iowa; Fauziya Kassindja, Arlington, Virginia.
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS REFORM
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee resumed hearings on S. 2288, to provide for the reform and continuing legislative oversight of the production, procurement, dissemination, and permanent public access of the Government's publications, receiving testimony from J. Michael Farren, Xerox Corporation, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the Information Technology Industry Council; Leonard Pomata, Litton/PRC, Inc., McLean, Virginia, representing the Professional Services Council; and William A. Gindlesperger, ABC Advisors, Inc., Chambersburg, Pennsylvania.
Also, committee held hearings to examine issues with regard to the proposed renovation of the Dirksen Senate Office Building and United States Capitol dome, receiving testimony from Alan M. Hantman, Architect of the Capitol.
Committee recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported S. 1771, to provide for a final settlement of the claims of the Colorado Ute Indian Tribes, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. (As approved by the committee, the substitute amendment incorporated the text of S. 1899, to ratify a Water Rights Compact entered into by the Chippewa Cree Tribe of the Rocky Boy's Reservation and the State of Montana, as Title II of the bill.)
NOMINATION
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported the nomination of Montie R. Deer, of Kansas, to be Chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission, Department of the Interior.
Prior to this action, the committee concluded hearings on the nomination of Mr. Deer, after the nominee testified and answered questions in his own behalf.
