Hearing: “Preserving and Protecting Our Natural Resources"
Date/time: Tuesday, June 12, 2001, at 10 a.m.
Location: 215 Dirksen Senate Office Building Description: The Committee on Finance, led by Sen. Max Baucus, chairman, and Sen. Chuck Grassley, ranking member, will convene a hearing to hear testimony from organizations and land owners with a significant stake in land that can be sold or contributed for conservation purposes. The hearing is meant to lay the ground work for future expansions of tax incentives to promote land conservation. The Joint Committee on Taxation will release a document describing current tax law treatment of land conservation as well as a number of proposals to encourage land conservation.
Witness List A Panel Consisting of:
< W. Elton Kennedy, Delta Land & Farm Management, Co., LLC, Mer Rouge, La.
< Mark Ackelson, President, Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, Des Moines, Iowa
< William W. McDonald, Malpai Borderlands Group, Douglas, Ariz.
< Stephen W. Schley, President, Pingree Associates, Inc., Bangor, Maine
< Chase T. Hibbard, Sieband Livestock Co., Helena, Mont.
Source: Ranking Member’s News
