[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 137 (Wednesday, November 12, 2014)]
[Senate]
[Page S5926]
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                          NOTICES OF HEARINGS


               COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

  Ms. LANDRIEU. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the 
information of the Senate and the public, that a business meeting has 
been scheduled before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources. The business meeting will be held on Thursday, November 13, 
2014, at 3 p.m. in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Building.
  The purpose of the Business Meeting is to consider the following 
legislation:

       1. S. 2638, a bill to amend the Natural Gas Act to provide 
     certainty with respect to the timing of Department of Energy 
     decisions to approve or deny applications to export natural 
     gas. (Mr. Hoeven)
       2. S. 2379, a bill to approve and implement the Klamath 
     Basin agreements, to improve natural resource management, 
     support economic development, and sustain agricultural 
     production in the Klamath River Basin in the public interest 
     and the interest of the United States, and for other 
     purposes. (Mr. Wyden)
       3. S. 1784, a bill to improve timber management on Oregon 
     and California Railroad and Coos Bay Wagon Road grant land, 
     and for other purposes. (Mr. Wyden)
       4. S. 2602, a bill to establish the Mountains to Sound 
     Greenway National Heritage Area in the State of Washington. 
     (Ms. Cantwell)
       5. S. 182, a bill to provide for the unencumbering of title 
     to non-Federal land owned by the city of Anchorage, Alaska, 
     for the purposes of economic development by conveyance of the 
     Federal reversion interest to the City. (Ms. Murkowski)
       6. S. 776, a bill to establish the Columbine-Hondo 
     Wilderness in the State of New Mexico, to provide for the 
     conveyance of certain parcels of National Forest System land 
     in the State, and for other purposes. (Mr. Udall of New 
     Mexico)
       7. S. 841, a bill to designate certain Federal land in the 
     San Juan National Forest in the State of Colorado as 
     wilderness, and for other purposes. (Mr. Bennet)
       8. S. 1419, a bill to promote research, development, and 
     demonstration of marine and hydrokinetic renewable energy 
     technologies, and for other purposes. (Mr. Wyden)
       9. S. 1971, a bill to establish an interagency coordination 
     committee or subcommittee with the leadership of the 
     Department of Energy and the Department of the Interior, 
     focused on the nexus between energy and water production, 
     use, and efficiency, and for other purposes. (Ms. Murkowski).
       10. S. 398, a bill to establish the Commission to Study the 
     Potential Creation of a National Women's History Museum, and 
     for other purposes. (Ms. Collins)
       11. S. 2031, a bill to amend the Act to provide for the 
     establishment of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore in 
     the State of Wisconsin, and for other purposes, to adjust the 
     boundary to that National Lakeshore to include the lighthouse 
     known as Ashland Harbor Breakwater Light, and for other 
     purposes. (Ms. Baldwin)
       12. S. 1750, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the 
     Interior or the Secretary of Agriculture to enter into 
     agreements with States and political subdivisions of States 
     providing for the continued operation, in whole or in part, 
     of public land, units of the National Park System, units of 
     the National Wildlife Refuge System, and units of the 
     National Forest System in the State during any period in 
     which the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of 
     Agriculture is unable to maintain normal level of operations 
     at the units due to a lapse in appropriations, and for other 
     purposes. (Mr. Flake)
       13. S. 1966, a bill to provide for the restoration of the 
     economic and ecological health of National Forest System land 
     and rural communities, and for other purposes. (Mr. Barrasso)
       14. S. 2104, a bill to require the Director of the National 
     Park Service to refund to States all State funds that were 
     used to reopen and temporarily operate a unit of the National 
     Park System during the October 2013 shutdown. (Mr. Flake)
       15. H.R. 1526, an Act to restore employment and educational 
     opportunities in, and improve the economic stability of, 
     counties containing National Forest System land, while also 
     reducing Forest Service management costs, by ensuring that 
     such counties have a dependable source of revenue from 
     National Forest System land, to provide a temporary extension 
     of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination 
     Act of 2000, and for other purposes. (Rep. Hastings)
       16. H.R. 885, an Act to expand the boundary of the San 
     Antonio Missions National Historical Park, and for other 
     purposes. (Rep. Doggett)
       17. S. 1328, an bill to authorize the Secretary of the 
     Interior to conduct a special resource study of the 
     archeological site and surrounding land of the New 
     Philadelphia town site in the State of Illinois, and for 
     other purposes. (Mr. Kirk and Mr. Durbin)
       18. H.R. 1241, an Act to facilitate a land exchange 
     involving certain National Forest System lands in the Inyo 
     National Forest, and for other purposes. (Rep. Cook)
       19. S. 1437, a bill to provide for the release of the 
     reversionary interest held by the United States in certain 
     land conveyed in 1954 by the United States, acting through 
     the Director of the Bureau of Land Management, to the State 
     of Oregon for the establishment of the Hermiston Agriculture 
     Research and Extension Center of Oregon State University in 
     Hermiston, Oregon. (Mr. Wyden)
       20. S. 2873, a bill to authorize the Secretary of the 
     Interior to acknowledge contributions at units of the 
     National Park System. (Mr. Coburn)

  Because of the limited time available for the Business Meeting, 
witnesses may testify by invitation only. However, those wishing to 
submit written testimony for the business meeting 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 Sam_F[email protected].
  For further information, please contact Sam Fowler at (202) 224-7571.


                PERMANENT SUBCOMMITTEE ON INVESTIGATIONS

  Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the 
information of the Senate and the public that the Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs has scheduled a 2 day hearing entitled, ``Wall 
Street Bank Involvement With Physical Commodities.'' After a 2 year 
bipartisan investigation, the subcommittee will hold a hearing 
examining the extent to which banks and their holding companies own 
physical commodities like oil, natural gas, aluminum and other 
industrial metals, as well as own or control businesses like power 
plants, oil and gas pipelines, and commodity warehouses.
  The Subcommittee hearings have been scheduled for Thursday, November 
20, 2014, and Friday, November 21, 2014. The hearing will begin on both 
days at 9:30 a.m. in room SD-106 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. 
A witness list will be available on Monday, November 17, 2014. For 
further information, please contact Elise Bean of the Permanent 
Subcommittee on Investigations at (202) 224-9505.

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