Washington, D.C. – The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the Subcommittee Water & Power will each be conducting one hearing. The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold a hearing on Friday, November 14, 2003 at 10:00 a.m. in SD-366. The purpose of the hearing is to conduct oversight of the implementation of the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program. The invited witnesses are: (This list is subject to change) Panel One The Honorable Charles E. Grassley
U.S. Senator
Panel Two The Honorable Robert G. Card
Under Secretary
Department of Energy
Panel Three Mr. Robert E. Robertson
Director
Education,Workforce, Income Security Issues
U. S. General Accounting Office
Dr. David Michaels
Professor
George Washington University
Dr. John F. Burton
Professor
Rutgers University
Mr. Richard Miller
Government Accountability Project
Mr. Leon Owens
President
PACE
Paducah KY Chapter
Mr. Donald Elisburg
Attorney
AFL-CIO
Building and Construction Trades Department
The Subcommittee on Water & Power will hold a hearing to receive testimony on five bills on Thursday, November 13, 2003 at 2:30 p.m. in SD-366. The five bills are: S. 1085, a bill to provide for a Bureau of Reclamation program to assist states and local communities in evaluating and developing rural and small community water supply systems; S. 1732, 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; S. 1211, a bill to further the purposes of title XVI of the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992, the “Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act”, by directing the Secretary of the Interior to undertake a demonstration program for water reclamation in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico; S. 1727, a bill to authorize additional appropriations for the Reclamation Safety of Dams Act of 1978; S. 1791, a bill to amend the Lease Lot Conveyance Act of 2002 to provide that the amounts received by the United States under that Act shall be deposited in the reclamation fund. The invited witnesses are: Panel One Mr. Mark Limbaugh
Deputy Commissioner
United States Bureau of Reclamation
Brigadier General Select Thomas D. Waldhauser
Office of Naval Research
United States Department of Defense
Panel Two Mr. Peter B. Davies
Sandia National Laboratories
Albuquerque, New Mexico
Mr. Bernie Rhinerson
San Diego Water Authority
San Diego, California
Mr. Ed Archuleta
El Paso Water Utilities
El Paso, Texas
Mr. Pick Talley
Pinellas County Utilities
Pinellas County, Florida
Panel Three Mr. Jim T. Dunlap
New Mexico Rural Water Association
Farmington, New Mexico
Mr. Dave Koland
Garrison Diversion Conservancy District
Carrington, North Dakota
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