[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 13]
[Senate]
[Page 19169]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                           NOTICE OF HEARING


               committee on energy and natural resources

  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the public 
that a hearing has been scheduled before the full Energy and Natural 
Resources Committee to receive testimony regarding 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.
  The Governor of the Commonwealth and the Administration will be the 
only witnesses. Other individuals wishing to testify will be asked to 
submit their testimony for the record.
  The hearing will take place on Tuesday, September 14, 1999, at 9:30 
a.m. in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
  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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