[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 145 (1999), Part 16]
[Senate]
[Page 22687]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                           NOTICE OF HEARING


               committee on energy and natural resources

  Mr. CRAIG. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the public 
that a hearing has been scheduled before the Subcommittee on Forests 
and Public Land Management of the Senate Committee on Energy and 
Natural Resources.
  The hearing will take place on Tuesday, October 5, 1999 at 2:30 p.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. 1608, a 
bill to provide annual payments to the States and counties from 
National Forest System lands managed by the Forest Service, and the 
revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon 
Road grant lands managed predominately by the Bureau of Land 
Management, for use by the counties in which the lands are situated for 
the benefit of the public schools, roads, emergency and other public 
purposes; to encourage and provide a new mechanism for cooperation 
between counties and the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land 
Management to make necessary investments in federal lands, and reaffirm 
the positive connection between Federal Lands counties and Federal 
Lands; and for other purposes.
  Those who wish to submit written statements should write to the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate, Washington, 
D.C. 20510. For further information, please call Mark Rey at (202) 224-
6170.

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