[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 146 (2000), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1611]
[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 Senate 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry will meet on March 1, 
2000, in SD-192 at 9 a.m. The purpose of this meeting will be to 
discuss the agriculture trade agreement with China.


           committee or agriculture, nutrition, and forestry

  Mr. LUGAR. Mr. President, I would like to announce that the Senate 
Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry will meet on March 2, 
2000, in SR-328A a 10 a.m. The purpose of this meeting will be to 
discuss risk management/crop insurance and possibly other issues before 
the agriculture committee.


           subcommittee on forests and public land management

  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 Friday March 10, 2000, at 9 a.m., in 
room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.
  The purpose of this hearing is to receive testimony on S. 1892, a 
bill to authorize the acquisition of the Valles Caldera, to provide for 
an effective land and wildlife management program for this resource 
within the Department of Agriculture, and for other purposes. In 
addition, testimony will be taken from the Government Accounting Office 
and the Forest Service on the Government Accounting Office review of 
the Forest Service's appraisal for the acquisition of the Valles 
Caldera.
  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 or Bill Eby at 
(202) 224-6170.

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