[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 124 (Wednesday, September 22, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1015-D1016]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
VIEQUES TRAINING RANGE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support held hearings on the national security requirements for 
continued training operations at the Vieques Training Range in Puerto 
Rico, and the importance this training site has to the readiness of the 
U.S. Second Fleet, and the U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Atlantic, 
receiving testimony from Vice Adm. William J. Fallon, USN, Commander, 
United States Second Fleet; and Lt. Gen. Peter Pace, USMC, Commander, 
United States Marine Forces Atlantic.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 710, to authorize the feasibility study on the preservation of 
certain Civil War battlefields along the Vicksburg Campaign Trail, with 
amendments;
  S. 905, to establish the Lackawanna Valley American Heritage Area, 
with amendments;
  S. 1117, to establish the Corinth Unit of Shiloh National Military 
Park, in the vicinity of the city of Corinth, Mississippi, and in the 
State of Tennessee, with amendments;
  S. 1324, to expand the boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military 
Park to include Wills House;
  S. 1051, to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to manage 
the Strategic Petroleum Reserve more effectively, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1030, to provide that the conveyance by the Bureau of Land 
Management of the surface estate to certain land in the State of 
Wyoming in exchange for certain private land will not result in the 
removal

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of the land from operation of the mining laws, with an amendment;
  S. 623, to amend Public Law 89-108 to increase authorization levels 
for State and Indian tribal, municipal, rural, and industrial water 
supplies, to meet current and future water quantity and quality needs 
of the Red River Valley, to deauthorize certain project features and 
irrigation service areas, to enhance natural resources and fish and 
wildlife habitat, with amendments;
  S. 624, to authorize construction of the Fort Peck Reservation Rural 
Water System in the State of Montana, with an amendment in the nature 
of a substitute;
  S. 769, to provide a final settlement on certain debt owed by the 
city of Dickinson, North Dakota, for the construction of the bascule 
gates on the Dickinson Dam, with an amendment;
  S. 986, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey the 
Griffith Project to the Southern Nevada Water Authority, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1211, to amend the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act to 
authorize additional measures to carry out the control of salinity 
upstream of Imperial Dam in a cost-effective manner, with an amendment;
  S. 1275, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to produce and 
sell products and to sell publications relating to the Hoover Dam, and 
to deposit revenues generated from the sales into the Colorado River 
Dam fund;
  S. 1377, to amend the Central Utah Project Completion Act regarding 
the use of funds for water development for the Bonneville Unit, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1236, to extend the deadline under the Federal Power Act for 
commencement of the construction of the Arrowrock Dam Hydroelectric 
Project in the State of Idaho;
  S. 1288, to provide incentives for collaborative forest restoration 
projects on National Forest System and other public lands in New 
Mexico, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nomination of Ivan Itkin, of Pennsylvania, to be Director of the 
Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy.
DOJ HANDLING OF THE CHARLIE TRIE CASE
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings to 
examine the Department of Justice's handling of the Charlie Trie case, 
relating to the campaign finance investigation, after receiving 
testimony from Roberta Parker, Special Agent, Kevin Sheridan, Special 
Agent, Daniel Wehr, Special Agent, and former Special Agent In Charge 
Ivian C. Smith, all of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Laura 
Ingersoll and Lee J. Radek, all of the Department of Justice.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee met and discussed 
procedural issues relating to S. Res. 172, to establish a special 
committee of the Senate to address the cultural crisis facing America, 
and will meet again tomorrow.
AMERICAN INDIAN TRUST FUND MANAGEMENT REFORM
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 1587, 
to amend the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994 
to establish within the Department of the Interior an Office of Special 
Trustee for Data Cleanup and Internal Control, and S. 1589, to amend 
the American Indian Trust Fund Management Reform Act of 1994, after 
receiving testimony from Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior; 
Charles Tillman, Osage Nation, Pawhuska, Oklahoma, on behalf of the 
Intertribal Monitoring Association on Indian Trust Funds; Anna Whiting 
Sorrell, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead 
Nation, Pablo, Montana; Jerry Reynolds, First Nations Development 
Institute, Fredericksburg, Virginia; Reid Peyton Chambers, Sonosky, 
Chambers, Sachse, and Endreson, Washington, D.C., on behalf of the 
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort Peck Reservation; and Susan M. 
Masten, Yurok Tribe, Eureka, California.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on 
intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the 
intelligence community.
  Committee will meet again tomorrow.