[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 81 (Tuesday, June 12, 2001)]
[Daily Digest]
[Page D563]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
LAND CONSERVATION TAX INCENTIVES
Committee on Finance: Committee held hearings to examine proposals 
relating to federal income and estate tax provisions that impact land 
use conservation and preservation, including S. 701, to amend the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide special rules for the 
charitable deduction for conservation contributions of land by eligible 
farmers and ranchers, S. 822, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986 to modify the treatment of bonds issues to acquire renewable 
resources on land subject to conservation easement, S. 312, to amend 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to provide tax relief for farmers and 
fishermen, S. 315, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat 
payments under the Conservation Reserve Program as rentals from real 
estate, receiving testimony from W. Elton Kennedy, Delta Land and Farm 
Management Company, Mer Rouge, Louisiana; Mark C. Ackelson, Iowa 
Natural Heritage Foundation, Des Moines; William W. McDonald, Malpai 
Borderlands Group, Douglas, Arizona; Stephen W. Schley, Pingree 
Associates, Inc., Bangor, Maine; and Chase T. Hibbard, Sieben Live 
Stock Company, Helena, Montana, on behalf of the Montana Land Reliance.
  Hearings recessed subject to call.