[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 97 (Thursday, June 27, 1996)]
[Senate]
[Page S7201]
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            NOTICES OF HEARINGS COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS

  Mr. McCAIN. Mr. President, I would like to announce that the 
Committee on Indian Affairs will hold a hearing on Wednesday, July 3, 
1996 at 9:30 a.m. in Hawaii. The hearing will focus on the final report 
of the National Commission on American Indian, Alaska Native and Native 
Hawaiian Housing, a report of the Urban Development and Research of the 
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, and a study prepared 
by SMS Research for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands entitled, the 
``Beneficiary Needs Study.'' The hearing will be held in the Aha 
Kanawai Courtroom, fourth floor, Federal Courthouse, Prince Kuhio 
Federal building complex, Honolulu, HI.


           subcommittee on forests and public land management

  Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the benefit of 
Members and the public that the Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land 
Management of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources has 
scheduled a hearing on several measures relating to the Bureau of 
Reclamation.
  The measures are:
  S. 931--To authorize the construction of the Lewis and Clark Rural 
Water System and to authorize assistance to the Lewis and Clark Rural 
Water System, Inc., a nonprofit corporation, for the planning and 
construction of the water supply system, and for other purposes.
  S. 1564--To amend the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956 to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide loan guarantees for 
water supply, conservation, quality, and transmission projects, and for 
other purposes.
  S. 1565--To amend the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956 and to 
supplement the Federal Reclamation Laws by providing for Federal 
cooperation in non-Federal projects and for participation by non-
Federal agencies in Federal projects.
  S. 1649--to extend contracts between the Bureau of Reclamation and 
irrigation districts in Kansas and Nebraska, and for other purposes.
  S. 1719--To require the Secretary of the Interior to offer to sell to 
certain public agencies the indebtedness representing the remaining 
repayment balance of certain Bureau of Reclamation projects in Texas, 
and for other purposes.
  The hearing will take place on Tuesday, July 30, 1996 at 9:30 a.m. in 
room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
  Those wishing to testify or submit written statements for the record 
should contact James Beirne or Betty Nevitt of the subcommittee staff 
or write the Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management, 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 
20510.

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