Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee Hearing: To receive testimony on pending legislation (SD-366)

July 16, 2008
02:30 PM
The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills: 2354, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey 4 parcels of land from the Bureau of Land Management to the city of Twin Falls, Idaho; S. 3065, to establish the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area and the Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Area; S. 3069, to designate certain land as wilderness in the State of California, and for other purposes; S. 3085, to require the Secretary of the Interior to establish a cooperative watershed management program, and for other purposes; H.R. 3473, to provide for a land exchange with the City of Bountiful, Utah, involving National Forest System land in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest and to further land ownership consolidation in that national forest, and for other purposes; H.R. 3490, to transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal lands from the Bureau of Land Management to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to take such lands into trust for Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria, and for other purposes; H.R. 3651, to require the conveyance of certain public land within the boundaries of Camp Williams, Utah, to support the training and readiness of the Utah National Guard; H.R. 2632, to establish the Sabinoso Wilderness Area in San Miguel County, New Mexico, and for other purposes; and S. 2448, to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to make certain technical corrections.

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Witness Panel 1

  • The Honorable Barbara Boxer

    U.S. Senate

Witness Panel 2

  • Mr. Joel Holtrop

    Deputy Chief of the National Forest System
    Forest Service, Department of Agriculture
  • The Honorable Brent Wahlquist

    Director
    Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, DOI
  • Henri Bisson

    Deputy Director
    Bureau of Land Management

Witness Panel 3