[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 106 (Tuesday, July 23, 2013)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5848-S5849]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
NOTICES OF HEARINGS
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the
information of the Senate and the public that a hearing has been
scheduled before Subcommittee on National Parks. The hearing will be
held on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 of the
Dirksen Senate Office Building.
The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following
bills:
S. 398, to establish the Commission to Study the Potential
Creation of a National Women's History Museum, and for other
purposes;
S. 524, to amend the National Trails System Act to provide
for the study of the Pike National Historic Trail;
S. 618, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct
certain special resource studies;
S. 702, to designate the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers
Valley National Heritage Corridor as ``The Last Green Valley
National Heritage Corridor'';
S. 781, to modify the boundary of Yosemite National Park,
and for other purposes;
S. 782, to amend Public Law 101-377 to revise the
boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to
include the Gettysburg Train Station, and for other purposes;
S. 869, to establish the Alabama Black Belt National
Heritage Area, and for other purposes;
S. 925, to improve the Lower East Side Tenement National
Historic Site, and for other purposes;
S. 995, to authorize the National Desert Storm Memorial
Association to establish the National Desert Storm and Desert
Shield Memorial as a commemorative work in the District of
Columbia, and for other purposes;
S. 974, to provide for certain land conveyances in the
State of Nevada, and for other purposes;
S. 1044, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to install
in the area of the World War II Memorial in the District of
Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words
that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United
States on D-Day, June 6, 1944;
S. 1071, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make
improvements to support facilities for National Historic
Sites operated by the National Park Service, and for other
purposes;
S. 1138, to reauthorize the Hudson River Valley National
Heritage Area;
S. 1151, to reauthorize the America's Agricultural Heritage
Partnership in the State of Iowa;
S. 1157, to reauthorize the Rivers of Steel National
Heritage Area, the Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area,
the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, and the
Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Area;
S. 1186, to reauthorize the Essex National Heritage Area;
S. 1252, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to
designate segments of the Missisquoi River and the Trout
River in the State of Vermont, as components of the National
Wild and Scenic Rivers System;
S. 1253, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to
designate certain segments of the Farmington River and Salmon
Brook in the State of Connecticut as components of the
National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other
purposes;
H.R. 674, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to
study the suitability and feasibility of designating
prehistoric, historic,
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and limestone forest sites on Rota, Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands, as a unit of the National Park
System;
H.R. 885, to expand the boundary of the San Antonio
Missions National Historical Park, and for other purposes;
H.R. 1033 and S. 916, to authorize the acquisition and
protection of nationally significant battlefields and
associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812
under the American Battlefield Protection Program, and
H.R. 1158, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to
continue stocking fish in certain lakes in the North Cascades
National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, and Lake
Chelan National Recreation Area.
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 it to the Committee on
Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, 304 Dirksen Senate
Office Building, Washington, DC 20510-6150, or by email to
John_A[email protected].
For further information, please contact please contact David Brooks
(202) 224-9863 or John Assini (202) 224-9313.
committee on rules and administration
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on
Rules and Administration will meet on Wednesday, July 24, 2013, at 9:50
a.m., to conduct a business meeting to consider the nomination of
Davita Vance-Cooks, of Virginia, to be the public printer, and to
consider S. 375, a bill to require Senate candidates to file
designations, statements, and reports in electronic format.
For further information regarding this hearing, please contact Lynden
Armstrong at the Rules and Administration Committee, (202) 224-6352.
COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION
Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on
Rules and Administration will meet on Wednesday, July 24, 2013, at 10
a.m. to hear testimony on the nomination of Ann Miller Ravel and Lee E.
Goodman to be members of the Federal Election Commission.
For further information regarding this hearing, please contact Jean
Bordewich at the Rules and Administration Committee, (202) 224-6352.
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