[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 137 (Monday, October 6, 1997)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D1065]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
INDIAN MINERAL RIGHTS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1079, 
to permit the leasing of mineral rights in any case in which the Indian 
owner of an allotment of land that is located within the boundaries of 
the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation and held in trust by the United 
States have executed leases to more than 50 percent of the mineral 
estate of that allotment, after receiving testimony from Edward B. 
Cohen, Deputy Solicitor, Department of the Interior; Russell Mason, 
Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation, New Town, 
North Dakota; and Jim Powers, Powers Energy Corporation, Williston, 
North Dakota.