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

The full committee will hold a climate conference on Tuesday, April 4 from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 2:30 to 5:00 p.m. in Dirksen G-50.  The committee staff selected 29 groups to address the challenge of how Congress might go about creating a mandatory trading program to control U.S. greenhouse gas emissions. 

The conference participant list, guidelines and proposals can be found on the committee website at www.energy.senate.gov .

The public lands and forests subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, April 5 at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 to review the 2005 wildfire season and the Federal land management agencies’ preparations for the 2006 wildfire season.

Invited Witnesses Include:

Panel 1

The Honorable Mark Rey
Undersecretary
Natural Resources and the Environment
Department of Agriculture

Accompanied by
Mr. Tom Harbour
Director of Fire and Aviation Management
U.S. Forest Service

The Honorable Nina Rose Hatfield
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Policy, Management and Budget
Department of the Interior

The national parks subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, April 6 at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 to receive testimony on the following bills: S. 1510, a bill to designate as wilderness certain lands within the Rocky Mountain National Park in the State of Colorado; S. 1719 and H.R. 1492, bills to provide for the preservation of the historic confinement sites where Japanese Americans were detained during World War II; S. 1957, a bill to authorize the Secretary of Interior to convey to The Missouri River Basin Lewis and Clark Interpretive Trail and Visitor Center Foundation, Inc. certain Federal land associated with the Lewis and Clark National Historic Trail in Nebraska, to be used as an historical interpretive site along the trail; S. 2034 and H.R. 394, bills to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study to evaluate the significance of the Colonel James Barrett Farm in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and assess the suitability and feasibility of including the farm in the National Park System as part of the Minute Man National Historical Park; S. 2252, a bill to designate the National Museum of Wildlife Art, located at 2820 Rungius Road, Jackson, Wyoming, as the National Museum of Wildlife Art of the United States; and S. 2403, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to include in the boundaries of the Grand Teton National Park land and interests in land of the Grand Teton Park Subdivision.

Invited Witnesses Include:

Panel 1

Ms. Sue Masica
Associate Director of Park  Planning, Facilities and Lands
National Park Service

Panel 2

Mr. Gerald Yamada
O’Connor & Hannan, LLP
Washington, D.C.

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