[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 72 (Wednesday, June 5, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D564-D566]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
ACADEMY SUPERINTENDENTS
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Defense concluded hearings 
to examine the mission, goals, and challenges of service academy 
superintendents, after receiving testimony from Lt. Gen. William J. 
Lennox, Jr., USA, Superintendent, and 2Lt. Andrew Blickhahn, USA, both 
of the United States Military Academy, United States Army; Col. John R. 
Allen, USMC, Commandant of Midshipmen, and ENS Benjamin A. Drew, USN, 
both of the U.S. Naval Academy; and Lt. Gen. John R. Dallager, 
Superintendent, and Cadet First Class Todd Garner, both of the USAF 
Academy, United States Air Force.
NOMINATIONS
Committee on Armed Services: Committee ordered favorably reported 1,066 
military nominations in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force.
LEAD-BASED PAINT POISONING
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Housing and Transportation concluded oversight hearings to examine 
Federal responses to lead-based paint poisoning and childhood lead 
poisoning prevention, after receiving testimony from David E. Jacobs, 
Director, Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control, Department 
of Housing and Urban Development; Ruben King-Shaw, Jr., Deputy 
Administrator/Chief Operating Officer, Center for Medicaid and Medicaid 
Services, and Richard J. Jackson, Director, National Center for 
Environmental Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, both 
of the Department of Health and Human Services; Thomas L. Sansonetti, 
Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, 
Department of Justice; and Adam Sharp, Associate Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, 
Environmental Protection Agency.
NOMINATION
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Committee concluded 
hearings on the nomination of Steven Robert Blust, of Florida, to be a 
Federal Maritime Commissioner, after the nominee testified and answered 
questions in his own behalf. Testimony was also received from Hal 
Creel, Chairman, Federal Maritime Commission.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Committee ordered favorably 
reported the following business items:
  S. 1768, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to implement the 
Calfed Bay-Delta Program, with an amendment in the nature of a 
substitute;
  S. 281, to authorize the design and construction of a temporary 
education center at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, with an amendment in 
the nature of a substitute;
  S. 454, to provide permanent funding for the Bureau of Land 
Management Payment in Lieu of Taxes program;

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  S. 691, to direct the Secretary of Agriculture to convey certain land 
in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Nevada, to the Secretary of 
the Interior, in trust for the Washoe Indian Tribe of Nevada and 
California;
  S. 1010, to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a 
hydroelectric project in the State of North Carolina;
  S. 1175, to modify the boundary of Vicksburg National Military Park 
to include the property known as Pemberton's Headquarters, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 1227, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a 
study of the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Niagara 
Falls National Heritage Area in the State of New York, with amendments;
  S. 1240, to provide for the acquisition of land and construction of 
an interagency administrative and visitor facility at the entrance to 
American Fork Canyon, Utah, with an amendment;
  S. 1325, to ratify an agreement between the Aleut Corporation and the 
United States of America to exchange land rights received under the 
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act for certain land interests on Adak 
Island, with an amendment;
  S. 1649, to amend the Omnibus Parks and Public Lands Management Act 
of 1996 to increase the authorization of appropriations for the 
Vancouver National Historic Reserve and for the preservation of 
Vancouver Barracks, with amendments;
  S. 1843, to extend hydro-electric licenses in the State of Alaska;
  S. 1852, to extend the deadline for commencement of construction of a 
hydroelectric project in the State of Wyoming;
  S. 1894, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special 
resource study to determine the national significance of the Miami 
Circle site in the State of Florida as well as the suitability and 
feasibility of its inclusion in the National Park System as part of 
Biscayne National Park, with an amendment;
  S. 1907, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain 
land to the city of Haines, Oregon, with an amendment;
  S. 1946, to amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Old 
Spanish Trail as a National Historic Trail, with amendments;
  H.R. 223, to amend the Clear Creek County, Colorado, Public Lands 
Transfer Act of 1993 to provide additional time for Clear Creek County 
to dispose of certain lands transferred to the county under the Act;
  H.R. 308, to establish the Guam War Claims Review Commission;
  H.R. 309, to provide for the determination of withholding tax rates 
under the Guam income tax;
  H.R. 601, to redesignate certain lands within the Craters of the Moon 
National Monument;
  H.R. 640, to adjust the boundaries of Santa Monica Mountains National 
Recreation Area, with an amendment;
  H.R. 1384, to amend the National Trails System Act to designate the 
route in Arizona and New Mexico which the Navajo and Mescalero Apache 
Indian tribes were forced to walk in 1863 and 1864, for study for 
potential addition to the National Trails System;
  H.R. 1456, to expand the boundary of the Booker T. Washington 
National Monument;
  H.R. 1576, to designate the James Peak Wilderness and Protection Area 
in the Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests in the State of Colorado;
  H.R. 2234, to revise the boundary of the Tumacacori National 
Historical Park in the State of Arizona;
  H.R. 2440, to rename Wolf Trap Farm Park as ``Wolf Trap National Park 
for the Performing Arts'';
  S.J. Res. 34, approving the site at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, for the 
development of a repository for the disposal of high-level radioactive 
waste and spent nuclear fuel, pursuant to the Nuclear Waste Policy Act 
of 1982; and
  The nominations of Guy F. Caruso, of Virginia, to be Administrator of 
the Energy Information Administration, and Kyle E. McSlarrow, of 
Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary, both of the Department of Energy.
NUCLEAR SECURITY
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings 
S. 1586, to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to authorize the 
carrying of firearms by employees of licensees, and S. 1746, to amend 
the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 and the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974 
to strengthen security at sensitive nuclear facilities, after receiving 
testimony from Representative Markey; Richard A. Meserve, Chairman, 
Nuclear Regulatory Commission; David Lochbaum, Union of Concerned 
Scientists, Jack Skolds, Exelon Nuclear, and Danielle Brian, Project On 
Government Oversight, all of Washington, D.C.; Irwin Redlener, 
Children's Hospital at Montefiore, New York, New York, on behalf of the 
Children's Health Fund; and Donna J. Miller Hastie, Marietta, Georgia.
STRATEGIC OFFENSIVE REDUCTIONS TREATY
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee met in closed session to 
receive a briefing on the President's trip to Europe and the Strategic 
Offensive Reductions Treaty from Colin L. Powell, Secretary of State.

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CUBA AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, 
Peace Corps and Narcotics Affairs concluded open and closed hearings to 
examine Cuba's pursuit of biological weapons, focusing on research, 
production, and stockpiling, after receiving testimony from Carl W. 
Ford Jr., Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research.