[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 36 (Monday, April 8, 2002)]
[Senate]
[Page S2373]
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                      NOTICES OF HEARINGS/MEETINGS


               COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the 
information of the Senate and the public that a hearing has been 
scheduled before the subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resource.
  The hearing will take place on Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 3 p.m. in 
room 366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.
  The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
  S. 1441, to establish the Oil Region National Heritage Area;
  S. 1526, to establish the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area in 
the State of Georgia, and for other purposes.
  S. 1638, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the 
suitability and feasibility of designating the French Colonial Heritage 
Area in the State of Missouri as a unit of the National Park System, 
and for other purposes;
  S. 1809 and H.R. 1776, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
study the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Buffalo Bayou 
National Heritage Area in west Houston, Texas;
  S. 1939, to establish the Great Basin National Heritage Area, Nevada 
and Utah; and
  S. 2033 and H.R. 4004, to authorize appropriations for the John H. 
Chafee Blackstone River Valley Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and 
Rhode Island, and for other purposes.
  Because of the limited time available for the hearing, witnesses may 
testify by invitation only. However, those wishing to submit written 
testimony for the hearing record should send two copies of their 
testimony to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United 
States Senate, 312 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC 
20510.
  For further information, please contact David Brooks of the committee 
staff at (202-224-9863).

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