[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 142 (Tuesday, October 19, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1157-D1159]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ATLANTIC FLEET WEAPONS TRAINING FACILITY
Committee on Armed Services:  Committee concluded hearings to examine 
future naval operations at the Atlantic Fleet Weapons Training 
Facility, and the report on the findings of the Special Panel on 
Military Operations on Vieques, after receiving testimony from Francis 
M. Rush, Jr., Chairman, Special Presidential Panel on Military 
Operations on Vieques; Richard Danzig, Secretary of the Navy; Adm. Jay 
L. Johnson, USN, Chief of Naval Operations; Gen. James L. Jones, Jr., 
USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps; and Puerto Rico Governor Pedro 
Rosello, Carlos Romero-Barcelo, Resident Commissioner from Puerto Rico, 
Anibal Acevedo-Vila, Minority Leader, Puerto Rican House of 
Representatives, and Jose Alfredo Hernandez Mayoral, all of San Juan, 
Puerto Rico.
NATIONAL NUCLEAR SECURITY ADMINISTRATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources/Committee on Governmental 
Affairs: Committees concluded joint oversight hearings on the 
Department of Energy's implementation of provisions of the Department 
of Defense Authorization Act which create the National Nuclear Security 
Administration, after receiving testimony from Bill Richardson, 
Secretary of Energy.
SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF-DETERMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 1608, to provide annual 
payments to the States and counties from National Forest System lands 
managed by the Forest Service, and the revested Oregon and California 
Railroad and

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reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands managed predominately by the 
Bureau of Land Management, for use by the counties in which the lands 
are situated for the benefit of the public schools, roads, emergency 
and other public purposes; to encourage and provide new mechanism for 
cooperation between counties and the Forest Service and the Bureau of 
Land Management to make necessary investments in federal lands, and 
reaffirm the positive connection between Federal Lands counties and 
Federal Lands, after receiving testimony from James R. Lyons, Under 
Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Lynn 
Jungwirth, Watershed Research and Training Center, Hayfork, California; 
Carol Wright, Klamath Forest Alliance, Etna, California; and Gene 
Sirmon, Mississippi Timber Council, Brandon.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the nominations of Skila Harris, of Kentucky, and Glenn L. 
McCullough, Jr., of Mississippi, both to be Members of the Board of 
Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and Gerald V. Poje, of 
Virginia, to be a Member of the Chemical Safety and Hazard 
Investigation Board.
HABITAT CONSERVATION PLANS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Fisheries, 
Wildlife, and Drinking Water held hearings to examine how species 
listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) benefit from conservation 
and mitigation measures required in Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs), 
focusing on negotiation and implementation, appropriateness and 
adequacy of conservation measures, and the Administration's no 
surprises policy, receiving testimony from Eric R. Glitzenstein, Meyer 
and Glitzenstein, on behalf of the Spirit of the Sage Council/Defenders 
of Wildlife, and Steven P. Quarles, on behalf of the American Forest 
and Paper Association, both of Washington, DC; Robert D. Thornton, 
Nossaman, Guthner, Knox, and Elliott, Irvine, California, on behalf of 
the Orange County Transportation Corridor Agencies; William C. Pauli, 
California Farm Bureau Federation, Sacramento, on behalf of the 
American Farm Bureau Federation; Rudolph Willey, Presley Homes, 
Martinez, California; Brooke S. Fox, Douglas County Board of 
Commissioners, Castle Rock, Colorado; James E. Moore, Nature 
Conservancy of Nevada, Las Vegas; and Don Rose, Sempra Energy, San 
Diego, California, on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY RESTRUCTURING
Committee on Finance: Subcommittee on Long-term Growth and Debt 
Reduction held hearings on current-law tax provisions that may affect 
transactions undertaken with respect to the restructuring of the 
electric power industry, S. 386, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to provide for tax-exempt bond financing of certain electric 
facilities, S. 1048 and related provisions of S. 1047, measures to 
provide for a more competitive electric power industry, related 
provisions of S. 1429 and H.R. 2488, measures to amend the Internal 
Revenue Code of 1986 to reduce individual income tax rates, to provide 
marriage penalty relief, to reduce taxes on savings and investments, to 
provide estate and gift tax relief, to provide incentives for education 
savings and health care, and related provisions of H.R. 2038, to amend 
section 468A of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 with respect to 
deductions for decommissioning costs of nuclear power plants, receiving 
testimony from Senator Gorton; Representative English; Joseph Mikrut, 
Tax Legislative Counsel, Department of the Treasury; T.J. Glauthier, 
Deputy Secretary of Energy; Mayor Scott Maddox, Tallahassee, Florida, 
on behalf of the American Public Power Association; Thomas R. Kuhn, 
Edison Electric Institute, Washington, DC; Joseph R. Ronan, Jr., 
Calpine Power Services, San Jose, California; William Mayben, Nebraska 
Public Power District, Columbus, on behalf of the Large Public Power 
Council; Eric P. Yould, Alaska Rural Electric Cooperative Association, 
Anchorage, on behalf of the National Rural Electric Cooperative 
Association; Corbin A. McNeill, Jr., PECO Energy Company, Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania, on behalf of the Edison Electric Institute, Nuclear 
Energy Institute, and Utility Decommissioning Tax Group; and William 
Carlson, Wheelabrator Environmental Systems, Anderson, California, on 
behalf of the Electric Power Supply Association.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the 
nominations of Mary Carlin Yates, of Washington, to be Ambassador to 
the Republic of Burundi, John E. Lange, of Wisconsin, to be Ambassador 
to the Republic of Botswana, and Michael Edward Ranneberger, of 
Virginia, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Mali, after the nominees 
testified and answered questions in their own behalf.
SMALL BUSINESS PAPERWORK REDUCTION
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Committee concluded hearings on S. 
1378 and H.R. 391, bills to

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amend chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code, for the purposes of 
facilitating compliance by small businesses with certain Federal 
paperwork requirements, to establish a task force to examine the 
feasibility of streamlining paperwork requirements applicable to small 
businesses, after receiving testimony from Senator Lincoln; Jere W. 
Glover, Chief Counsel for Advocacy, Small Business Administration; John 
T. Spotila, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; Eleanor D. Acheson, Assistant 
Attorney General for the Office of Policy Development, Department of 
Justice; Robert Smith, Spero-Smith Investment Advisers, Inc., 
Beachwood, Ohio, on behalf of the National Small Business United; Jack 
Gold, Center Industrial and Maintenance Supply Company, Edison, New 
Jersey, on behalf of the National Federation of Independent Business; 
and Gary E. Warren, Baltimore County Fire Department, Baltimore, 
Maryland, on behalf of the International Association of Fire Chiefs.