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

The public lands and forests subcommittee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, March 29 at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 to receive testimony on S. 1832, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to lease oil and gas resources underlying Fort Reno, Oklahoma, to establish the Fort Reno Management Fund; S. 2150, to direct the Secretary of Interior to convey certain Bureau of Land Management Land to the City of Eugene, Oregon; and H.R. 3507, to transfer certain land in Riverside County, California, and San Diego County, California, from the Bureau of Land Management to the United States to be held in trust for the Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians.

Invited Witnesses Include:

Dr. Edward Knipling
Administrator of the Agricultural Research Service
USDA

Larry Benna
Deputy Director
Bureau of Land Management
USDI

The water and power subcommittee will hold a hearing on Thursday, March 30 at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 to receive testimony on S. 1577, to facilitate the transfer of Spearfish Hydroelectric Plant Number 1 to the city of Spearfish, South Dakota; S. 1962, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to revise certain repayment contracts with the Bostwick Irrigation District in Nebraska, the Kansas Bostwick Irrigation District No. 2, the Frenchman-Cambridge Irrigation District, and the Webster Irrigation District No. 4, all a part of the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program; S. 2028, to provide for the reinstatement of a license for a certain Federal Energy Regulatory Commission project; S. 2035, to extend the time required for construction of a hydroelectric project in the State of Idaho; S. 2054, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study of water resources in the State of Vermont; S. 2205, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain parcels of land acquired for the Blunt Reservoir and Pierre Canal features of the initial stage of the Oahe Unit, James Division, South Dakota, to the Commission of Schools and Public Lands and the Department of Game, Fish, and Parks of the State of South Dakota for the purpose of mitigating lost wildlife habitat, on the condition that the current preferential leaseholders shall have an option to purchase the parcels from the Commission; and H.R. 3812, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to prepare a feasibility study with respect to the Mokelumne River.

Invited Witnesses Include:

Panel 1

The Honorable John Keys    
Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation  
United States Department of the Interior  
       
Ms. Catherine Hill
Northeast Regional Hydrologist
United States Geological Survey
Reston, VA

Mr. J. Mark Robinson
Director of the Office of Energy Projects
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Panel 2

The Honorable Jerry Krambeck   
Mayor        
The City of Spearfish     
Spearfish, SD      

Dr. Mel Lytle
Water Resources Coordinator
San Joaquin County
Stockton, CA

Mr. Larry Becker     
State Geologist 
Vermont Dept. of Environmental Conservation     
Geology and Mineral Resources Division  
Waterbury, VT       

Ms. Darla Pollman-Rogers
Testifying on behalf of Preferential Lease Holders
Pierre, SD

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