[Congressional Record Volume 148, Number 73 (Thursday, June 6, 2002)]
[Daily Digest]
[Pages D574-D576]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
APPROPRIATIONS--FOREST SERVICE
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Interior concluded 
hearings on proposed budget estimates for fiscal year 2003 for the 
Forest Service, after receiving testimony from Dale N. Bosworth, Chief, 
and Hank Kashdan, Director, Program Development and Budget, both of the 
Forest Service, Department of Agriculture.
APPROPRIATIONS--LABOR
Committee on Appropriations: Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human 
Services, and Education concluded hearings on proposed budget estimates 
for fiscal year 2003 for the Department of Labor, after receiving 
testimony from Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of Labor.
TRIBAL COMMUNITY CAPITAL INVESTMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on 
Financial Institutions concluded oversight hearings to examine capital 
investments in tribal communities, focusing on expanding tribal land 
home ownership, overcoming barriers to capital access on tribal lands, 
and related findings of the Native American Lending Study, after 
receiving testimony from Rodger J. Boyd, Special Assistant to the 
Director of the Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, 
Department of the Treasury; Franklin D. Raines, Fannie Mae, Washington, 
D.C.; J.D. Colbert, North American Native Bankers Association, 
Alexandria, Virginia; William V. Fischer, American State Bank, of 
Pierre, Pierre, South Dakota; Michael B. Jandreau, Lower Brule Sioux 
Tribe,

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Lower Brule, South Dakota; and Elsie Meeks, First Nations Oweesta 
Corporation, Kyle, South Dakota.
WATER AND POWER REVISIONS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Water and 
Power concluded hearings on S. 1310/H.R. 1870, to provide for the sale 
of certain real property in the Newlands Project, Nevada, to the city 
of Fallon, Nevada, S. 1385/H.R. 2115, to authorize the Secretary of the 
Interior, pursuant to the provisions of the Reclamation Wastewater and 
Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to participate in the design, 
planning, and construction of the Lakehaven water reclamation project 
for the reclamation and reuse of water, S. 1824/H.R.2828, to authorize 
payments to certain Klamath Project water distribution entities for 
amounts assessed by the entities for operation and maintenance of the 
Project's irrigation works for 2001, to authorize funds to such 
entities of amounts collected by the Bureau of Reclamation for reserved 
works for 2001, S. 1883, to authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to 
participate in the rehabilitation of the Wallowa Lake Dam in Oregon, S. 
1999, to reauthorize the Mni Wiconi Rural Water Supply Project, S. 
2475, to amend the Central Utah Project Completion Act to clarify the 
responsibilities of the Secretary of the Interior with respect to the 
Central Utah Project, to redirect unexpended budget authority for the 
Central Utah Project for wastewater treatment and reuse and other 
purposes, to provide for prepayment of repayment contracts for 
municipal and industrial water delivery facilities, and to eliminate a 
deadline for such prepayment, and H.R. 706, to direct the Secretary of 
the Interior to convey certain properties in the vicinity of the 
Elephant Butte Reservoir and the Caballo Reservoir, New Mexico, after 
receiving testimony from Senator Bennett; Representative Walden; 
Bennett W. Raley, Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, and Mark 
A. Limbaugh, Director, External and Intergovernmental Affairs, Bureau 
of Reclamation, both of the Department of the Interior; Dan Keppen, 
Klamath Water Users Association, Klamath Falls, Oregon; Jeff Oveson, 
Grande Ronde Model Watershed Program, La Grande, Oregon, on behalf of 
the Wallowa Lake Dam Rehabilitation and Water Management Plan; John 
Steele, Oglala Sioux Tribe, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, on behalf of the 
West River/Lyman-Jones Inc., the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, and the Lower 
Brule Sioux Tribe; Don A. Christiansen, Central Utah Water Conservancy 
District, Orem; and Jerry Stagner, State National Bank, El Paso, Texas, 
on behalf of the Elephant Butte Caballo Association.
CLEAN WATER ACT REVISIONS
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, 
Wetlands, and Climate Change concluded hearings to examine the impacts 
of the revisions to the Clean Water Act regulatory definitions of 
``fill material'' and ``discharge of fill material'', after receiving 
testimony from George S. Dunlop, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army 
for Policy and Legislation, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the 
Army for Civil Works; Benjamin H. Grumbles, Deputy Assistant 
Administrator, Office of Water, Environmental Protection Agency; 
Michael Callaghan, West Virginia Department of Environmental 
Protection, Charleston; Joan Mulhern, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, 
Washington, D.C.; J. Bruce Wallace, University of Georgia Department of 
Entomology, Athens; Mike Whitt, Mingo County Redevelopment Authority, 
Williamson, West Virginia; and Kevin Richardson, Just Within Reach 
Foundation, Lexington, Kentucky.
RUSSIA AND CHINA NONPROLIFERATION AND EXPORT CONTROLS
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on International 
Security, Proliferation and Federal Services concluded hearings to 
examine how well Russia and China are complying with nonproliferation 
agreements and enforcing multilateral export control agreements, after 
receiving testimony from John S. Wolf, Assistant Secretary of State for 
Nonproliferation; Matthew S. Borman, Deputy Assistant Secretary of 
Commerce for Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security; 
Leonard S. Spector, Monterey Institute of International Studies Center 
for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey, California; David Albright, 
Institute for Science and International Security, Washington, D.C.; 
Gary Milhollin, University of Wisconsin Law School, Madison, on behalf 
of the Wisconsin Project for Nuclear Arms Control.
INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES EDUCATION ACT
Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions: Committee 
concluded hearings to examine the implementation of the Individuals 
with Disabilities Education Act, focusing on accountability from the 
Federal government, and a collaboration between institutions of higher 
education, local schools, and school faculties for teacher preparation 
programs, after receiving testimony from Lawrence C. Gloeckler, New 
York State Education Department, Office of Vocational and Educational 
Services for Individuals with Disabilities, Albany; David W. Gordon, 
Elk Grove Unified School District, Elk Grove, California; Stan F. Shaw, 
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Special Education Program, Storrs; Arlene Mayerson, Disability Rights 
Education and Defense Fund, Inc., Berkeley, California; and Marisa C. 
Brown, Vienna, Virginia.
COUNTERTERRORISM
Committee on the Judiciary: Committee concluded oversight hearings on 
counterterrorism and national security activities in the Department of 
Justice, including the FBI's response to evidence of terrorist activity 
in the U.S. prior to September 11, and certain related aspects of the 
FBI's new reorganization plan, after receiving testimony from Robert S. 
Mueller III, Director, and Coleen M. Rowley, Special Agent and 
Minneapolis Chief Division Counsel, both of the Federal Bureau of 
Investigation, and Glenn A. Fine, Inspector General, all of the 
Department of Justice.
BUSINESS MEETING
Committee on Veterans' Affairs: Committee ordered favorably reported 
the following bills:
  S. 2043, to amend title 38, United States Code, to extend by five 
years the period for the provision by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs 
of noninstitutional extended care services and required nursing home 
care, with an amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2132, to amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the 
establishment of medical emergency preparedness centers in the Veterans 
Health Administration, to provide for the enhancement of the medical 
research activities of the Department of Veterans Affairs, with an 
amendment in the nature of a substitute;
  S. 2074, to increase, effective as of December 1, 2002, the rates of 
compensation for veterans with service-connected disabilities and the 
rates of dependency and indemnity compensation for the survivors of 
certain disabled veterans; and
  S. 2237, to amend title 38, United States Code, to enhance 
compensation for veterans with hearing loss, with an amendment in the 
nature of a substitute.