[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 103 (Thursday, June 22, 1995)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D774-D775]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
LIVESTOCK GRAZING ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 852, to provide for 
uniform management of livestock grazing on Federal land, after 
receiving testimony from Mike Dombeck, Acting Director, Bureau of Land 
Management, Department of the Interior; Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, Forest 
Service, and Floyd P. Horn, Deputy Under Secretary for Research, 
Education and Economics, both of the Department of Agriculture; Truman 
Julian, Julian Land and Livestock Company, Kemmerer, Wyoming, on behalf 
of the Public Lands Council; Joseph M. Feller, Arizona State 
University, Tempe; Dexter Perkins, University of North Dakota, Grand 
Forks, on behalf of the Sierra Club (Dacotah Chapter); John M. Fowler, 
New Mexico State University, and Frank A. Dubois, on behalf of the 
National Association of State Departments of Agriculture, both of Las 
Cruces, New Mexico; Ken Spann, Englewood, Colorado, on behalf of the 
National Cattlemen's Association; Brad Little, Emmett, Idaho, on behalf 
of the American Sheep Industry Association; Keith Winter, Cartwright, 
North Dakota, on behalf of the Association of National Grasslands; Tim 
Lowry, Jordan Valley, Oregon, on behalf of the Owyhee Cattlemen's 
Association; Bud Eppers, New Mexico Public Lands Council, Roswell; Jeff 
Menges, Morenci, Arizona, on behalf of the Arizona Cattle Grower's 
Association; Niels Hansen, Rawlins, Wyoming, on behalf of the Stock 
Growers Association, the Wyoming Wool Growers Association, and the 
Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation; Jack Madsen, Gunnison, Utah, on behalf 
of the Utah Farm Bureau and the American Farm Bureau Federation; Walt 
Collins, Ft. Peck, Montana, on behalf of the Montana Public Lands 
Council; Kinn Kincannon, Ketchum, Idaho, on behalf of the Idaho 
Conservation League; Elsie Dupree, Carson City, Nevada, on behalf of 
the Nevada Wildlife Federation, Inc.; and Richard Kroger, Bismarck, 
North Dakota, on behalf of The Wildlife Society (North Dakota Chapter).
ENDANGERED SALMON
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Drinking 
Water, Fisheries, and Wildlife held oversight hearings on the National 
Marine Fisheries Service's policy on spills at Columbia River [[Page D 
775]] hydropower dams, gas bubble trauma in threatened and endangered 
salmon, and the scientific method used under the Endangered Species 
Act, receiving testimony from William Stelle Jr., Director, Northwest 
Region, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Col. Bartholomew B. 
Bohn, USA, Deputy Commander, North Pacific Division, U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers; Edward C. Bowles, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, Boise; 
Larry E. Fidler, Aspen Applied Sciences Ltd., Cranbrook, B.C. Canada; 
Margaret J. Filardo, Fish Passage Center, Portland, Oregon; Phillip R. 
Mundy, Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, Lake Oswego, Oregon; James 
Anderson, University of Washington, and Wesley J. Ebel, both of 
Seattle, Washington; and Gerald R. Bouck, Tualatin, Oregon.
  Hearings were recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee ordered favorably reported the 
following business items:
  S.J. Res. 27, to grant the consent of the Congress to certain 
additional powers conferred upon the Bi-State Development Agency by the 
States of Missouri and Illinois,
  S. 457, to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to update 
references in the classification of children for purposes of United 
States immigration laws; and
  The nominations of Carlos F. Lucero, of Colorado, to be United States 
Circuit Judge for the Tenth Circuit, Peter C. Economus and Donald C. 
Nugent, each to be a United States District Judge for the Northern 
District of Ohio, Wiley Y. Daniel, to be United States District Judge 
for the District of Colorado, Nancy Friedman Atlas, to be United States 
District Judge for the Southern District of Texas, Andrew Fois, of New 
York, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, and 
Terrence B. Adamson, of Washington, D.C., and Janie L. Shores, of 
Alabama, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the State 
Justice Institute.
OSHA REFORM
Committee on Labor and Human Resources: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on activities of the Occupational Safety and Health 
Administration (OSHA), focusing on proposals to reform OSHA regulations 
to improve workplace safety, including related measures S. 526 and S. 
592, after receiving testimony from Senator Judd Gregg; Joseph A. Dear, 
Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational Safety and Health; 
William Steinmetz Jr., Midland Engineering Company, South Bend, 
Indiana, on behalf of the National Roofing Contractors Association; 
David A. Whiston, Vienna, Virginia, on behalf of the American Dental 
Association; and Michael Wright, United Steel Workers of America, 
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.