[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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