[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Page 11314]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          NOTICES OF HEARINGS


               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

  Mr. BINGAMAN. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the 
information of the Senate and the public that a hearing has been 
scheduled before Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee 
on National Parks.
  The hearing will be held on May 15, 2007, at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 
of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.
  The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following 
bills: S. 553, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate 
certain segments of the Eightmile River in the State of Connecticut as 
components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System; S. 800, to 
establish the Niagara Falls National Heritage Area in the State of New 
York; S. 916, to modify the boundary of the Minidoka Internment 
National Monument, to establish the Minidoka National Historic Site, to 
authorize the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain land and 
improvements of the Gooding Division of the Minidoka Project, Idaho; S. 
1057, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain 
segments of the New River in the States of North Carolina and Virginia 
as a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System; S. 1209, 
to provide for the continued administration of Santa Rosa Island, 
Channel Islands National Park, in accordance with the laws (including 
regulations) and policies of the National Park Service; S. 1281, to 
amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain rivers and 
streams of the headwaters of the Snake River System as additions to the 
National Wild and Scenic River System; H.R. 161, to adjust the boundary 
of the Minidoka Internment National Monument to include the Nidoto Nai 
Yoni Memorial in Bainbridge Island, Washington; H.R. 247, to designate 
a Forest Service trail at Waldo Lake in the Willamette National Forest 
in the State of Oregon as a national recreation trail in honor of Jim 
Weaver, a former Member of the House of Representatives; and H.R. 376, 
to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special 
resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of 
including the battlefields and related sites of the First and Second 
Battles of Newtonia, Missouri, during the Civil War as part of Wilson's 
Creek National Battlefield or designating the battlefields and related 
sites as a separate unit of the National Park System.
  Because of the limited time available for the hearing, witnesses may 
testify by invitation only. However, those wishing to submit written 
testimony for the hearing record should send it to the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, Washington, DC 
20510-6150, or by e-mail to [email protected]
.gov.
  For further information, please contact David Brooks at (202) 224-
9863 or Rachel Pasternack at (202) 224-0883.


                      COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS

  Mr. DORGAN. Mr. President, I would like to announce that the 
Committee on Indian Affairs will meet on Thursday, May 3, 2007, at 9:30 
a.m. in Room 485 of the Russell Senate Office Building to conduct a 
hearing on S. 310, the Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 
2007.
  Those wishing additional information may contact the Indian Affairs 
Committee at 224-2251.

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