Washington, D.C. - The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee will hold one full committee hearing and two subcommittee hearings next week.
The national parks subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, May 10 at 2:30 p.m. in SD-366 to review the National Park Service’s funding needs for administration and management of the national park system.
Invited Witnesses Include:
Panel 1
Honorable Fran Manella
Director
National Park Service
Panel 2
Mr. Greg Moore
Executive Director
Golden Gate National Park Conservancy
San Francisco, California
Mr. Lee Werst
President
Association of National Park Rangers
Orem, Utah
Mr. Robert Arnberger
Coalition of National Park Service Retirees
Tucson, Arizona
The full committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, May 11 at 10:00 a.m. in SD-366 to receive testimony on S. 895: a bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to establish a rural water supply program in the Reclamation States to provide a clean, safe, affordable, and reliable water supply to rural residents.
Invited Witnesses Include:
Panel 1
The Honorable John W. Keys III
Commissioner
Bureau of Reclamation
United States Department of the Interior
Panel 2
Mr. Jim Dunlap
Board Member
The National Rural Water Association
Farmington, NM
Mr. Duane A. Smith
Vice-Chairman
Western States Water Council
Oklahoma City, OK
Mayor David Lansford
Chairman
Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Association
Clovis, NM
Mr. Harold Frazier
Chairman
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
Eagle Butte, SD
The public lands and forests subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, May 11 at 2:00 p.m. to receive testimony on S. 100, to authorize the exchange of certain land in the State of Colorado; S. 235 and H.R. 816, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to sell certain parcels of Federal land in Carson City and Douglas County, Nevada; S. 404, to make a technical correction relating to the land conveyance authorized by Public Law 108-67; S. 741, to provide for the disposal of certain Forest Service administrative sites in the State of Oregon; S. 761, to rename the Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in the State of Idaho as the Morley Nelson Snake River Birds of Prey National Conservation Area in honor of the late Morley Nelson, an international authority on birds of prey, who was instrumental in the establishment of this National Conservation Area; and H.R. 486, to provide for a land exchange involving private land and Bureau of Land Management land in the vicinity of Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, for the purpose of removing private land from the required safety zone surrounding munitions storage bunkers at Holloman Air Force Base.
Invited Witnesses Include:
Mr. Tom Lonnie
Assistant Director, Minerals, Realty & Resource Protection
Bureau of Land Management
Department of the Interior
Greg Smith
Director of Lands
U.S. Forest Service
Department of Agriculture
