[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 11]
[Senate]
[Page 15868]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



                          NOTICES OF HEARINGS


           committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

  Mr. LUGAR. Mr. President, I would like to announce that the Committee 
on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry will meet on July 26, 2000, in 
SH-216 at 8:30 a.m. The purpose of this hearing will be to review the 
Federal sugar program.


           committee on agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

  LUGAR. Mr. President, I would like to announce that the Committee on 
Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry will meet on July 27, 2000, in SH-
216 at 9 a.m. The purpose of this hearing will be to review proposals 
to establish an international school lunch program.


               committee on Energy and Natural Resources

  Mr. MURKOWSKI. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the public 
that an oversight hearing has been scheduled before the Senate 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
  The hearing will take place on Thursday, August 10, 2000, at 10:30 
a.m. in the Alaska Native Brotherhood Hall; 320 Willoughby Ave, Juneau, 
Alaska 99801.
  The purpose of this oversight hearing is to receive testimony to 
assist in establishing the value of the Brady Glacier mineral deposit 
within Glacier Bay National Park; and to examine implications of 
National Park Service restrictions on commercial fishing in Glacier 
Bay.
  Those who wish to submit written statements should write to the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 
20510. For further information, please call Mike Menge (202) 224-6170


               committee on energy and Natural Resources

                    Subcommittee on Water and Power

  Mr. SMITH of New Hampshire. Mr. President, I would like to announce 
for the information of the Senate and the public that the hearing to 
conduct oversight on the status of the Biological Opinions of the 
National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service on the operations of the Federal hydropower system of the 
Columbia River regarding the National Marine Fisheries Service's draft 
Biological Opinion and its potential impact on the Columbia River 
operations, which had been previously scheduled for Tuesday, July 25, 
2000, at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building 
in Washington, DC has been indefinitely postponed.
  For further information, please call Trici Heninger, staff assistant, 
or Colleen Deegan, counsel, at (202) 224-8115.

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