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“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Department of Interior was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D916 on Aug. 15, 2018.
The Department oversees more than 500 million acres of land. Downsizing the Federal Government, a project aimed at lowering taxes and boosting federal efficiency, said the department has contributed to a growing water crisis and holds many lands which could be better managed.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL PARKS LEGISLATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on National Parks concluded a hearing to examine S. 599 and H.R. 1488, bills to redesignate the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore as the ``Indiana Dunes National Park'', S. 1644, to clarify the status of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail as a unit of the National Park System, S. 1926 and H.R. 2156, bills to provide for the establishment of a national memorial and national monument to commemorate those killed by the collapse of the Saint Francis Dam on March 12, 1928, S. 1987 and H.R. 2600, bills to provide for the conveyance to the State of Iowa of the reversionary interest held by the United States in and to certain land in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, and to express the sense of Congress relating to the continued provision of information relating to certain national historic trails, S. 1993, to adjust the boundary of the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area to include the Rim of the Valley Corridor, S. 2015, to clarify the status of the North Country, Ice Age, and New England National Scenic Trails as units of the National Park System, S. 2441, to amend the Steel Industry American Heritage Area Act of 1996 to repeal the funding limitation, S. 2570, to repeal the funding authorization sunset and the total funding cap for the Essex National Heritage Area, S. 2604, to amend the Oil Region National Heritage Area Act to reauthorize the Oil Region National Heritage Area, S. 2672, to authorize the Society of the First Infantry Division to make modifications to the First Division Monument located on Federal land in President's Park in Washington, DC, S. 2870, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study of the site known as
``Amache'' in the State of Colorado, S. 2876, to amend the National Trails System Act to provide for the study of the Pike National Historic Trail, S. 2889 and H.R. 4895, bills to establish the Medgar Evers National Monument in the State of Mississippi, S. 2831 and H.R. 5751, bills to redesignate Golden Spike National Historic Site and to establish the Transcontinental Railroad Network, S. 3176 and H.R. 5979, bills to establish the Mill Springs Battlefield National Monument in the State of Kentucky as a unit of the National Park System, S. 3287 and H.R. 5655, bills to establish the Camp Nelson Heritage National Monument in the State of Kentucky as a unit of the National Park System, S. 3298, to extend the authority of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, Inc., to establish a visitor center for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and H. Con. Res. 33, designating the George C. Marshall Museum and George C. Marshall Research Library in Lexington, Virginia, as the National George C. Marshall Museum and Library, after receiving testimony from P. Daniel Smith, Deputy Director, Exercising the Authority of the Director, National Parks Service, Department of the Interior.
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