Washington, D.C. – The Subcommittees on National Parks and Water & Power will each be conducting one hearing. The Subcommittee for Water & Power will hold a joint hearing with the Committee on Indian Affairs to receive testimony on one bill on Tuesday, September 30, at 10:00 a.m. in SD-366. The bill is: S. 437, the Arizona Water Settlements Acts, which is a bill to provide for adjustments to the Central Arizona Project in Arizona, to authorize the Gila River Indian Community water rights settlement, and to re-authorize and amend the Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act of 1982. The invited witnesses are: Panel 1 Bennett Raley
Assistant Secretary for Water and Science
Department of Interior
Aurene Martin
Acting Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs
Department of Interior
Panel 2 Mr. Joe Shirley, Jr.
President
Navajo Nation
Window Rock, AZ
Ms. Kathy W. Kitcheyan
Tribal Chairwoman
San Carlos Apache Tribe
San Carlos, AZ
Ms. Vivian Juan Saunders
Chairwoman
Tohono O’odham Nation
Sells, AZ
Mr. Richard Narcia
Governor
Gila River Indian Community
Sacaton, AZ
Mr. Herbert R. Gunther
Director
Arizona Department of Water
Phoenix, AZ
John D’Antonio
New Mexico State Engineer
Santa Fe, NM
The Subcommittee on National Parks will hold a hearing to receive testimony on four bills on Thursday, October 2, at 10:00 a.m. in SD-366. The four bills are: S. 524, a bill to expand the boundaries of the Fort Donelson National Battlefield to authorize the acquisition and interpretation of lands associated with the campaign that resulted in the capture of the fort in 1862. S. 1313, a bill to establish the Congaree Swamp National Park in the State of South Carolina. S. 1472, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide for the construction of a statue of Harry S. Truman at Union Station in Kansas City, Missouri. S. 1576, a bill to revise the boundary of Harpers Ferry National Historic Park. The invited witnesses are: The Honorable Ernest F. Hollings
United States Senator
Panel 1 Ms. Sue Masica
Associate Director of Park Planning, Facilities and Lands
National Park Service
Department of the Interior
Panel 2 Ms. Debby Spencer
Vice President
West Kentucky Corporation
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Mr. Dennis Frye
3724 Mills Road
Sharpsburg, Maryland
Mrs. Harriet Hampton-Faucette
1820 Seneca Avenue
Columbia, South Carolina
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