[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 148 (2002), Part 4]
[Senate]
[Page 4584]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      NOTICES OF HEARINGS/MEETINGS


               COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES

  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I would like to announce that the 
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will meet during the session 
of the Senate on Thursday, April 18, at 3:00 p.m. to conduct a hearing. 
The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following 
bills:
  S. 1441 and H.R. 695, to establish the Oil Region Heritage Area;
  S. 1526, to establish the Arabia Mountain National Heritage Area in 
the State of Georgia, and for other purposes;
  S. 1638, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the 
suitability and feasibility of designating the French colonial Heritage 
Area in the State of Missouri as a unit of the National Park System, 
and for other purposes;
  S. 1809 and H.R. 1776, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
study the suitability and feasibility of establishing the Buffalo Bayou 
National Heritage Area in west Houston, Texas;
  S. 1939, to establish the Great Basin National Heritage Area, Nevada 
and Utah; and
  S. 2033, to authorize appropriations for the John H. Chafee Backstone 
River Valley National Heritage Corridor in Massachusetts and Rhode 
Island, and for other purposes.

                          ____________________