[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 27 (Monday, March 13, 2000)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D199]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
AUTHORIZATION--DEFENSE
Committee on Armed Services: Subcommittee on Readiness and Management 
Support concluded hearings on proposed legislation authorizing funds 
for fiscal year 2001 for the Department of Defense and the Future Years 
Defense Program, focusing on the Services' Infrastructure accounts and 
Real Property Maintenance Programs and the National Missile Defense 
Construction request, after receiving testimony from Randall A. Yim, 
Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Installations; Mahlon Apgar IV, 
Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations and Environment; Maj. 
Gen. Robert L. Van Antwerp, Jr., USA, Assistant Chief of Army Staff for 
Installation Management; Robert B. Pirie, Jr., Assistant Secretary of 
the Navy for Installations and Environment; Rear Adm. Louis M. Smith, 
USN, Commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command; Maj. Gen. Harold 
Mashburn, Jr., USMC, Assistant Deputy Chief of Marine Corps Staff for 
Installations and Logistics; Ruby B. DeMesme, Assistant Secretary of 
the Air Force for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, Installations and 
Environment; Maj. Gen. Earnest O. Robbins II, USAF, The Civil Engineer, 
Department of the Air Force; and Lt. Gen. Ronald T. Kadish, USAF, 
Director, Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.
VALLES CALDERA PRESERVATION ACT
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and 
Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 1892, to authorize the 
acquisition of the Valles Caldera, to provide for an effective land and 
wildlife management program for this resource within the Department of 
Agriculture, after receiving testimony from Representatives Wilson and 
Tom Udall; Barry T. Hill, Associate Director, Energy, Resources and 
Science Issues, General Accounting Office; James Lyons, Under Secretary 
of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment; Larry Finfer, 
Assistant Director for Communications, Bureau of Land Management, 
Department of the Interior; Raymond Gachupin, Jemez Pueblo, Jemez, New 
Mexico; Denny Guiterrez, Santa Clara Pueblo, Espanola, New Mexico; 
Gregory Nibert, Hinkle Law Firm, Roswell, New Mexico; Frank Bond, 
Simons, Cuddy, and Friedman, and Palemon Martinez, Northern New Mexico 
Stockman's Association, both of Santa Fe, New Mexico; and Dave Simon, 
Albuquerque, New Mexico, on behalf of the National Parks and 
Conservation Association.