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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D891-D893 on Sept. 12, 2000.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
USDA'S PROCESSING OF COMPLAINTS OF DISCRIMINATION
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: Committee concluded hearings to examine the Department of Agriculture's processing of civil rights complaints, and recommendations to improve the efficiency of the process, after receiving testimony from Roger C. Viadero, Inspector General, Paul W. Fiddick, Assistant Secretary for Administration, and Charles R. Rawls, General Counsel, all of the Department of Agriculture; Robert E. Robertson, Associate Director, Food and Agriculture Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; John W. Boyd, Jr., National Black Farmers Association, Baskerville, Virginia; John Zippert, Epes, Alabama, on behalf of the Federation of Southern Cooperatives/Land Assistance Fund and the Rural Coalition/Coalicion Rural; Lawrence Lucas, USDA Coalition of Minority Employees, and Alexander Pires, Conlon, Frantz, Phelan, and Pires, both of Washington, D.C.; Harold Conner, Upper Marlboro, Maryland; and Juanita Carranza, Lambert, Montana.
RAIL COMPETITION
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Transportation concluded oversight hearings on freight rail competition issues, after receiving testimony from Linda J. Morgan, Chairman, Surface Transportation Board, Department of Transportation; Bobby Tom Crowe, Walter Industries, Inc., Birmingham, Alabama, on behalf of the American Chemistry Council; Eric Aasmundstad, North Dakota Farm Bureau, Fargo, on behalf of the American Farm Bureau Federation; and Diane C. Duff, Alliance for Rail Competition, Edward R. Hamberger, Association of American Railroads, and Frank K. Turner, American Short Line and Regional Railroad Association, all of Washington, D.C.
FHA RESERVES
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation concluded hearings on S. 2914, to amend the National Housing Act to require partial rebates of FHA mortgage insurance premiums to certain mortgagors upon payment of their FHA-
insured mortgages, S. 2997, to establish a National Housing Trust Fund in the Treasury of the United States to provide for the development of decent, safe, and affordable housing for low-income families, and to examine issues relating to the current perceived surplus in the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) Mutual Mortgage Insurance Fund and establishing a safe and adequate level of FHA reserves, after receiving testimony from Stanley J. Czerwinski, Associate Director, Housing and Community Development Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; William Apgar, Assistant Secretary for Housing/ Federal Housing Commissioner, Department of Housing and Urban Development; John C. Weicher, Hudson Institute, Jordan Clark, United Homeowners Association, and Thomas A. Schatz, Citizens Against Government Waste, all of Washington, D.C.; Joe Flatley, Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation, Boston; and Mariana Luz, Anti-Displacement Project, Inc., Springfield, Massachusetts.
FIRESTONE TIRE RECALL
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded hearings to examine issues surrounding the investigation and recall of Firestone ATX, ATX II, and Wilderness AT tires and Ford Explorer rollovers, after receiving testimony from Rodney E. Slater, Secretary, and Sue Bailey, Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, both of the Department of Transportation; Masatoshi Ono, Tokyo, Japan, and John Lampe and Robert Wyant, both of Nashville, Tennessee, all of Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc.; Jacques A. Nasser, Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, Michigan; and Joan Claybrook, Public Citizen, and Clarence Ditlow, Center for Auto Safety, both of Washington, D.C.
COLUMBIA RIVER HYDROPOWER
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded oversight hearings on the status of the biological opinions of the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the operations of the Federal hydropower system of the Columbia River, after receiving testimony from Derek B Stewart, Associate Director, Energy, Resources, and Science Issues, Resources, Community, and Economic Development Division, General Accounting Office; George T. Frampton, Jr., Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality; William Stelle, Jr., Northwest Regional Administrator, National Marine Fisheries Service, Department of Commerce; Judith A. Johansen, Administrator/ Chief Executive Officer, Bonneville Power Administration, Department of Energy; Col. Eric T. Mogren, Deputy Division Engineer, Northwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers; and David Cottingham, Special Assistant to the Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION'S PROPOSED RULE ON ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings to examine Department of Transportation proposed regulations for metropolitan and statewide transportation planning rules, implementation of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and related procedures for transportation decisionmaking, protection of public parks, wildlife and waterfowl, refugees, and historic sites, focusing on the proposed NEPA regulations and how they relate to the environmental streamlining provisions of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), P.L. 105-178, after receiving testimony from George T. Frampton, Jr., Chairman, Council on Environmental Quality; Kenneth R. Wykle, Administrator, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation; Lois J. Schiffer, Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice; Carol A. Murray, New Hampshire Department of Transportation, Concord; Jim Currie, Montana Department of Transportation, Helena, on behalf of the Montana, Wyoming, Nevada, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arizona, and Michigan Transportation Departments; Gordon D. Proctor, Ohio Department of Transportation, Columbus; and Thomas R. Warne, Utah Department of Transportation, Salt Lake City, on behalf of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.
TREATIES
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Treaty with Nigeria on mutual legal assistance in criminal matters
(Treaty Doc. 102-26), Inter-American Convention on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters with related optional protocol (Treaty Doc. 105-25), Treaty with Ukraine on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. 106-16), Treaty with France on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. 106-17), Treaty with Greece on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. 106-
18), Treaty With Egypt on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters
(Treaty Doc. 106-19), Treaty with Romania on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. 106-20), Treaty with Russia on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. 106-22), Treaty with Cyprus on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. 106-
35), Treaty with South Africa on Mutual Legal Assistance in Criminal Matters (Treaty Doc. 106-36), Extradition Treaty with Paraguay (Treaty Doc. 106-4), Extradition Treaty With South Africa (Treaty Doc. 106-24), Extradition Treaty with Sri Lanka (Treaty Doc. 106-34), Extradition Treaty with Belize (Treaty Doc. 106-38), Treaty with Belize for Return of Stolen Vehicles (Treaty Doc. 105-54), Treaty with Guatemala for Return of Stolen, Robbed, Embezzled or Appropriated Vehicles and Aircraft (Treaty Doc. 105-58), Treaty with Dominican Republic for Return of Stolen or Embezzled Vehicles (Treaty Doc. 106-7), Treaty with Costa Rica on Return of Vehicles and Aircraft (Treaty Doc. 106-40), Treaty with Panama on Return of Vehicles and Aircraft (Treaty Doc. 106-
44), Inter-American Convention of Serving Criminal Sentences Abroad
(Treaty Doc. 104-35), and Protocol Amending the 1950 Consular Convention with Ireland (Treaty Doc. 106-43), after receiving testimony from Bruce C. Swartz, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, Department of Justice; and Samuel M. Witten, Assistant Legal Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, Department of State.
