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

The National Parks subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, March 14 at 2:30 p.m.  in room SD-366 to review the President’s proposed budget for the National Park Service for Fiscal Year 2007.

Invited Witnesses Include:

The Honorable Fran Mainella
Director
National Park Service

Accompanied by:
Mr. Bruce Sheaffer
Comptroller
National Park Service

The full committee will hold a business meeting on Wednesday, March 15 at 11:30 a.m. in room SD-366 to consider the following items on the agenda:

To consider the nomination of Raymond L. Orbach to be Under Secretary for Science for the Department of Energy.

To consider the nomination of Alexander A. Karsner to be Assistant Secretary of Energy (Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy).

To consider the nomination of Dennis R. Spurgeon to be Assistant Secretary of Energy (Nuclear Energy).

To consider the nomination of David Longly Bernhardt to be Solicitor of the Department of the Interior.

S. 476 - To authorize the Boy Scouts of America to exchange certain land in the State of Utah acquired under the Recreation and Public Purposes Act.

S. 1548 - To provide for the conveyance of certain Forest Service land to the city of Coffman Cove, Alaska.

S. 1829 - To repeal certain sections of the Act of May 26, 1936, pertaining to the Virgin Islands.

S. 1830 - To amend the Compact of Free Association Amendments Act of 2003.

H.R. 562 - To authorize the Government of Ukraine to establish a memorial on Federal land in the District of Columbia to honor the victims of the manmade famine that occurred in Ukraine in 1932-1933.

H.R. 3443 ( S. 1498) - To direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain water distribution facilities to the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District.