Washington, D.C. - The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee will hold one subcommittee hearing next week.

The National Parks subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 28 at 10:00 a.m. in SD – 366 to receive testimony on the following bills: S. 206, a bill to designate the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail; S. 556, a bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to jointly conduct a study of certain land adjacent to the Walnut Canyon National Monument in the State of Arizona; S. 588, a bill to amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to jointly conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Arizona Trail as a national scenic trail or a national historic trail; and S. 955, a bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of including in the National Park System certain sites in Williamson County, Tennessee, relating to the Battle of Franklin.

Invited Witnesses Include:

Panel 1

Mr. Donald Murphy

Deputy Director

National Park Service

Panel 2

Ms. Elizabeth Archuleta

Chairman

Coconino County Board of Supervisors

Flagstaff, Arizona

Mr. Tom Miller

Mayor

City of Franklin

Franklin, Tennessee

Mr. Gary Kleinknecht

President

Ice Age Floods Institute

Kennewick, Washington

Mr. Larry Snead

Executive Director

Arizona Trail Association

Phoenix, Arizona

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