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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D848 on July 8, 2008.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS: ENERGY AND WATER DEVELOPMENT
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development approved for full Committee consideration an original bill making appropriations for Energy and Water Development for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2009.
WATER BILLS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and Power concluded a hearing to examine S. 2842, to require the Secretary of the Interior to carry out annual inspections of canals, levees, tunnels, dikes, pumping plants, dams, and reservoirs under the jurisdiction of the Secretary, S. 2974, to provide for the construction of the Arkansas Valley Conduit in the State of Colorado, H.R. 3323, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey a water distribution system to the Goleta Water District, and S. 3189, to amend Public Law 106-392 to require the Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration and the Commissioner of Reclamation to maintain sufficient revenues in the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund, after receiving testimony from Senator Allard; Robert W. Johnson, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior; Jennifer Gimbel, Colorado Department of Natural Resources Water Conservation Board, Denver; Dan Keppen, Family Farm Alliance, Klamath Falls, Oregon; Bill Long, Southeastern Colorado Water Conservancy District, Las Animas.
