[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14566]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                        ANNOUNCEMENT OF HEARINGS

  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, for the information of the Senate I 
would like to announce that S. 1273, the Federal Power Act Amendments 
of 1999; and S. 1284, the Electric Consumer Choice Act have been added 
to the hearing to be held before the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources on Tuesday, June 29 at 9:30 a.m. I would also like to 
announce that the hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural 
Resources previously scheduled for July 1, 1999 has been postponed 
until July 15, 1999 at 9:30 a.m. in SH-216 of the Hart Senate Office 
Building. The Committee will receive testimony on S. 161, the Power 
Marketing Administration Reform Act of 1999; S. 282, the Transition to 
Competition in the Electric Industry Act; S. 516, the Electric Utility 
Restructuring Empowerment and Competitiveness Act of 1999; S. 1047, the 
Comprehensive Electricity Competition Act; S. 1273, the Federal Power 
Act Amendments of 1999; and S. 1284, the Electric Consumer Choice Act. 
For additional information you may write to the Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources, U.S. Senate, Washington, D.C. 20510.
  Mr. President, I also announce for the public that a hearing has been 
scheduled before the full Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  The hearing will take place on Tuesday, July 27, 1999, at 9:30 a.m. 
in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, 
D.C.
  The purpose of this hearing is to receive testimony on S. 1052, to 
implement further the Act (Public Law 94-241) approving the Covenant to 
Establish a Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in Political 
Union with the United States of America, and for other purposes.
  Those wishing to testify or who wish to submit written statements 
should contact the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, 
Washington, D.C. For further information, please call James Beirne, 
Deputy Chief Counsel at (202) 224-2564, or Betty Nevitt, Staff 
Assistant at (202) 224-0765.

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