[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 143 (Wednesday, October 20, 1999)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D1167-D1169]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
JOINT MILITARY FORCES PREPARATION
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and 
Capabilities concluded hearings on the efforts of the military services 
in implementing joint experimentation to prepare for future challenges, 
after receiving testimony from Adm. Harold W. Gehman, Jr., USN, 
Commander in Chief, United States Joint Forces Command; Maj. Gen. 
George F. Close, Jr., USA, Director, Operational Plans and 
Interoperability, Office of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Lt. Gen. Randy 
L. Rigby, USA, Deputy Commanding General, Training and Doctrine 
Command; Lt. Gen. John E. Rhodes, USMC, Commanding General, Marine 
Corps Combat Development Command; Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski, USN, 
President, United States Naval War College; and Maj. Gen. Gerald F. 
Perryman, Jr., USAF, Commander, Aerospace Command and Control, and 
Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Center, Air Combat 
Command.
PERFORMANCE ENHANCING DRUGS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings to examine the effects of performance enhancing drugs on the 
health of athletes and international athletic competition, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Campbell; Barry R. McCaffrey, 
Director, Office of National Drug Control Policy; Scott P. Serota, Blue 
Cross and Blue Shield Association, Washington, D.C.; Nancy Hogshead, 
Holland and Knight, Washington, D.C., and Gary I. Wadler, New York 
University School of Medicine, Manhasset, both on behalf of the Olympic 
Advocates Together Honorably; William Hybl, United States Olympic 
Committee, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Richard W. Pound, International 
Olympic Committee, Montreal, Canada; Doriane Lambelet Coleman, Duke 
University School of Law, Durham, North Carolina; and Frank Shorter, 
Boulder, Colorado.

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BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1349, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct special 
resource studies to determine the national significance of specific 
sites as well as the suitability and feasibility of their inclusion as 
units of the National Park System, with amendments;
  S. 1052, to implement further the Act (Public Law 94-241) approving 
the Covenant to Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands in Political Union with the United States of America, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  H.R. 20, to extend the authorization for the Upper Delaware Citizens 
Advisory Council and to authorize construction and operation of a 
visitor center for the Upper Delaware Scenic and Recreational River, 
New York and Pennsylvania, with an amendment, and in lieu of S. 167;
  H.R. 592, to redesignate Great Kills Park in the Gateway National 
Recreation Area as ``World War II Veterans Park at Great Kills'';
  H.R. 1619, to amend the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers Valley 
National Heritage Corridor Act of 1994 to expand the boundaries of the 
Corridor;
  S. 1296, to designate portions of the lower Delaware River and 
associated tributaries as a component of the National Wild and Scenic 
Rivers System, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1569, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate 
segments of the Taunton River in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for 
study for potential addition to the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 
System, with amendments;
  H.R. 1487, to provide for public participation in the declaration of 
national monuments under the Act popularly known as the Antiquities Act 
of 1906;
  S. 439, to amend the National Forest and Public Lands of Nevada 
Enhancement Act of 1988 to adjust the boundary of the Toiyabe National 
Forest, Nevada;
  S. 977, to provide for the conveyance by the Bureau of Land 
Management to Douglas County, Oregon, of a county park and certain 
adjacent land, with an amendment;
  S. 1599, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to sell or 
exchange all or part of certain administrative sites and other land in 
the Black Hills National Forest and to use funds derived from the sale 
or exchange to acquire replacement sites and to acquire or construct 
administrative improvements in connection with Black Hills National 
Forest;
  S. 1374, to authorize the development and maintenance of a 
multiagency campus project in the town of Jackson, Wyoming, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute; and
  The nomination of David J. Hayes, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary 
of the Interior.
LAND CONVEYANCE AND CONSERVATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded hearings on S. 1167, to amend the Pacific Northwest 
Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act to provide for expanding 
the scope of the Independent Scientific Review Panel, S. 1694, to 
direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the 
reclamation and reuse of water and wastewater in the State of Hawaii, 
S. 1612, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
irrigation project property to certain irrigation and reclamation 
districts in the State of Nebraska, S. 1474, providing conveyance of 
the Palmetto Bend project to the State of Texas, S. 1697, to authorize 
the Secretary of the Interior to refund certain collections received 
pursuant to the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982, S. 1723, to establish a 
program to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to plan, design, and 
construct facilities to mitigate impacts associated with irrigation 
system water diversions by local governmental entities in the Pacific 
Ocean drainage of the States of Oregon, Washington, Montana, and Idaho, 
S. 1178, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
parcels of land acquired for the Blunt Reservoir and Pierre Canal 
features of the Oahe Irrigation Project, South Dakota, to the 
Commission of Schools and Public Lands of the State of South Dakota for 
the purpose of mitigating lost wildlife habitat, on the condition that 
the current preferential leaseholders shall have an option to purchase 
the parcels from the Commission, after receiving testimony from Eluid 
Martinez, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the 
Interior; Lorraine Bodi, Senior Policy Advisor, Bonneville Power 
Administration, Department of Energy; James Holt, Nez Perce Tribe, 
Lapwai, Idaho; Todd Maddock, Northwest Power Planning Council, and Roy 
Elicker, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, both of Portland, 
Oregon; Martin Kanner, Kanner and Associates, on behalf of the Public 
Power Council, and Peter Carlson, Will and Carlson, on behalf of the 
Oregon Water Resources Congress, both of Washington, D.C.; Tom Knutson, 
Loup Basin Reclamation District/Farwell and Sargent Irrigation 
District, Farwell, Nebraska; Jack C. Nelson, Lavaca-Navidad River 
Authority, Edna, Texas; and Curt Johnson, South Dakota Office of School 
and Public Lands, John Cooper, South Dakota Department of Game, Fish 
and Parks, David Hauschild, South Dakota Water Congress, and Darla 
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Rogers, Meyer and Rogers, on behalf of the Preferential Leaseholders, 
all of Pierre.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Finance: Committee ordered favorably reported an original 
bill, the Tax Relief Extension Act of 1999.
U.S.-SOUTH KOREA EXTRADITION TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Senate concluded hearings on the 
Extradition Treaty between the Government of the United States of 
America and the Government of the Republic of Korea (hereinafter 
referred to as ``the Treaty''), signed at Washington on June 9, 1998 
(Treaty Doc. 106-02), after receiving testimony from Jamison S. Borek, 
Deputy Legal Adviser, Department of State; and John E. Harris, Acting 
Director, Office of International Affairs, Criminal Division, 
Department of Justice.
JUSTICE DEPARTMENT CLEMENCY PROCESS
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee held oversight hearings to 
examine the Department of Justice clemency process, focusing on the 
recent clemency decision for the FALN members, receiving testimony from 
Eric Holder, Deputy Attorney General, and Roger Adams, Pardon Attorney, 
both of the Department of Justice.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.
ARCHITECT OF THE CAPITOL OPERATIONS
Committee on Rules and Administration: Committee concluded oversight 
hearings on the operations of the Architect of the Capitol, after 
receiving testimony from Alan M. Hantman, Architect of the Capitol.
INDIAN RESERVATION ROADS
Committee on Indian Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
the Department of Transportation's implementation of provisions in the 
Transportation Equity Act of the 21st Century (TEA-21) affecting the 
Indian Reservation Roads program of the Federal Lands Highway Program, 
after receiving testimony from Arthur E. Hamilton, Program Manager, 
Federal Lands Highway, Federal Highway Administration, Department of 
Transportation; Robert Baracker, Director, Southwest Regional Office, 
Bureau of Indian Affairs, Department of the Interior; Mary Thomas, Gila 
River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona; Loretta Bullard, Kawerak, 
Inc., Nome, Alaska; Bobby Whitefeather, Red Lake Band of Chippewa 
Indians, Red Lake, Minnesota; and Paulson Chaco, Navajo Nation 
Department of Transportation, Window Rock, Arizona.