[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 30 (Thursday, March 7, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S1655]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                           NOTICE OF HEARING


      Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation, and Recreation

  Mr. CAMPBELL. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the public 
that a hearing has been scheduled before the Subcommittee on Parks, 
Historic Preservation, and Recreation of the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources.
  The hearing will take place on Thursday, March 21, 1996, at 9:30 
a.m., in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in 
Washington, DC.
  The purpose of this hearing is to review S. 305, a bill to establish 
the Shenandoah Valley National Battlefields and Commission in the 
Commonwealth of Virginia; H.R. 1091, a bill to improve the National 
Park System in the Commonwealth of Virginia; S. 1225, a bill to require 
the Secretary of the Interior to conduct an inventory of historic 
sites, buildings, and artifacts in the Champlain Valley and the upper 
Hudson River Valley; S. 1226, a bill to require the Secretary of the 
Interior to prepare a study of battlefields of the Revolutionary War 
and the War of 1812, to establish an American Battlefield Protection 
Program; and Senate Joint Resolution 42, a joint resolution designating 
the Civil War Center at Louisiana State University as the ``United 
States Civil War Center,'' making the center the flagship institution 
for planning the sesquicentennial commemoration of the Civil War.
  Because of the limited time available for the hearing, witnesses may 
testify by invitation only. However, those wishing to submit written 
testimony for the hearing record should send two copies of their 
testimony to the Subcommittee on Parks, Historic Preservation, and 
Recreation, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate, 364 
Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 20510-6150.
  For further information, please contact Jim O'Toole of the 
subcommittee staff at (202) 224-5161.

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