• On Thursday, July 12, the full committee will consider the nominations of Clarence H. Albright to be Under Secretary of Energy; Lisa E. Epifani to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs; and, James L. Caswell to be Director of the Bureau of Land Management. (Dirksen 366 at 9:30 a.m.)
  
  
• On Thursday, July 12, the Subcommittee on National Parks will receive testimony on S. 488 and H.R. 1100, to revise the boundary of the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in North Carolina; S. 617, to make the National Parks and Federal Recreational Lands Pass available at a discount to certain veterans; S. 824 and H.R. 995, to amend Public Law 106-348 to extend the authorization for establishing a memorial in the District of Columbia or its environs to honor veterans who became disabled while serving in the Armed Forces of the United States; S. 955, to establish the Abraham Lincoln National Heritage Area; S. 1148, to establish the Champlain Quadricentennial Commemoration Commission and the Hudson-Fulton 400th Commemoration Commission; S. 1182, to amend the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994 to increase the authorization of appropriations and modify the date on which the authority of the Interior Secretary terminates under the act; S. 1380, to designate as wilderness certain land within the Rocky Mountain National Park and to adjust the boundaries of the Indian Peaks Wilderness and the Arapaho National Recreation Area of the Arapaho National Forest in Colorado; and S. 1728, to amend the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978 to reauthorize the Na Hoa Pili O Kaloko-Honokohau Advisory Commission Reauthorization Act of 2007. (Dirksen 366 at 2:30 p.m.)

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