Washington, D.C. - The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee will hold three full committee hearings and two subcommittee hearings next week.

The full committee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, February 28 at 10:00 a.m. in room SD-366 to review the proposed Fiscal Year 2007 Forest Service budget.

Invited Witnesses Include:

The Honorable Mark Rey
Undersecretary
Natural Resources and the Environment
Department of Agriculture
 
Chief Dale Bosworth
Chief
U.S. Forest Service
Department of Agriculture

The water and power subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, February 28 at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 to receive testimony on the Bureau of Reclamation’s Reuse and Recycling Program (Title XVI of P.L. 102-575).

Invited Witnesses Include:

Panel 1

The Honorable John Keys
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation
US Department of the Interior

Panel 2

Ms. Betsy Cody
Specialist in Natural Resources Policy
Resources, Science, and Industry Division
Congressional Research Service
The Library of Congress

Mr. Richard Atwater
Chairman, Legislative Committee
WateReuse Association
Alexandria, VA

Mr. Thomas F. Donnelly
Executive Vice President
National Water Resources Association
Arlington, VA

Ms. Virginia Grebbien
General Manager
Orange County Water District
Fountain Valley, CA

The full committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, March 1 at 10:00 a.m. in room SD-366 to receive testimony regarding the state of the economies and fiscal affairs in the Territories of Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the United States Virgin Islands.

Invited Witnesses Include:

Panel 1

Mr. David B. Cohen
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Insular Affairs
U.S. Department of the Interior

Panel 2

The Honorable Madeleine Bordallo  
Delegate to Congress  
Territory of Guam  
 
The Honorable Togiola Tulafono
Governor
Territory of American Samoa

The Honorable Donna Christensen  
Delegate to Congress  
The United States Virgin Islands  

The Honorable Charles Turnbull
Governor
The United States Virgin Islands

The Honorable Eni Faleomavaega  
Delegate to Congress  
Territory of American Samoa   

The Honorable Pedro Tenorio
Resident Representative to the United States
The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

The Honorable Felix Camacho
Governor
Territory of Guam

The public lands and forests subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, March 1 at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 to review the role of the Forest Service and other Federal agencies in protecting the health and welfare of foreign guest workers carrying out tree planting and other service contracts on National Forest System lands, and to consider related Forest Service guidance and contract modifications issued in recent weeks.

Invited Witnesses Include:

Panel 1

The Honorable Mark Rey
Undersecretary
Natural Resources and the Environment
Department of Agriculture
 
The Honorable Victoria Lipnic
Assistant Secretary
Employment Standards Administration
Department of Labor

Panel 2

Mr. Michael Dale
Northwest Workers’ Justice Project
Portland, OR

Ms. Lynn Jungwirth
Watershed Research and Training Center
Hayfork, CA
 
Ms. Cassandra Moseley
Institute for Sustainable Environment
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR

Ms. Cindy Wood
Wood’s Fire and Emergency Services, Inc.
Portola, CA

The full committee will hold a hearing on Thursday, March 2 at 10:00 a.m. in room SD-366 to review the proposed Fiscal Year 2007 Department of Interior budget.

Invited Witnesses Include:

The Honorable Gale Norton
Secretary
U.S. Department of the Interior