[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[Senate]
[Pages 12054-12055]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          NOTICES OF HEARINGS


               Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

  Mr. WYDEN. Mr. President, I would like to announce for the 
information of the Senate and the public that a hearing has been 
scheduled before Subcommittee on National Parks. The hearing will be 
held on Wednesday, July 31, 2013, 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. 398, to establish the Commission to Study the Potential 
     Creation of a National

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     Women's History Museum, and for other purposes;
       S. 524, to amend the National Trails System Act to provide 
     for the study of the Pike National Historic Trail;
       S. 618, to require the Secretary of the Interior to conduct 
     certain special resource studies;
       S. 702, to designate the Quinebaug and Shetucket Rivers 
     Valley National Heritage Corridor as ``The Last Green Valley 
     National Heritage Corridor'';
       S. 781, to modify the boundary of Yosemite National Park, 
     and for other purposes;
       S. 782, to amend Public Law 101-377 to revise the 
     boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to 
     include the Gettysburg Train Station, and for other purposes;
       S. 869, to establish the Alabama Black Belt National 
     Heritage Area, and for other purposes;
       S. 925, to improve the Lower East Side Tenement National 
     Historic Site, and for other purposes;
       S. 995, to authorize the National Desert Storm Memorial 
     Association to establish the National Desert Storm and Desert 
     Shield Memorial as a commemorative work in the District of 
     Columbia, and for other purposes;
       S. 974, to provide for certain land conveyances in the 
     State of Nevada, and for other purposes;
       S. 1044, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to install 
     in the area of the World War II Memorial in the District of 
     Columbia a suitable plaque or an inscription with the words 
     that President Franklin D. Roosevelt prayed with the United 
     States on D-Day, June 6, 1944;
       S. 1071, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to make 
     improvements to support facilities for National Historic 
     Sites operated by the National Park Service, and for other 
     purposes;
       S. 1138, to reauthorize the Hudson River Valley National 
     Heritage Area;
       S. 1151, to reauthorize the America's Agricultural Heritage 
     Partnership in the State of Iowa;
       S. 1157, to reauthorize the Rivers of Steel National 
     Heritage Area, the Lackawanna Valley National Heritage Area, 
     the Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, and the 
     Schuylkill River Valley National Heritage Area;
       S. 1186, to reauthorize the Essex National Heritage Area;
       S. 1252, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
     designate segments of the Missisquoi River and the Trout 
     River in the State of Vermont, as components of the National 
     Wild and Scenic Rivers System;
       S. 1253, to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to 
     designate certain segments of the Farmington River and Salmon 
     Brook in the State of Connecticut as components of the 
     National Wild and Scenic Rivers System, and for other 
     purposes;
       H.R. 674, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to 
     study the suitability and feasibility of designating 
     prehistoric, historic, and limestone forest sites on Rota, 
     Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as a unit of 
     the National Park System;
       H.R. 885, to expand the boundary of the San Antonio 
     Missions National Historical Park, and for other purposes;
       H.R. 1033 and S. 916, to authorize the acquisition and 
     protection of nationally significant battlefields and 
     associated sites of the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812 
     under the American Battlefield Protection Program, and
       H.R. 1158, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to 
     continue stocking fish in certain lakes in the North Cascades 
     National Park, Ross Lake National Recreation Area, and Lake 
     Chelan National Recreation Area.

  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, 304 Dirksen Senate 
Office Building, Washington, DC 20510-6150, or by email to 
John_A[email protected].
  For further information, please contact please contact David Brooks 
(202) 224-9863 or John Assini (202) 224-9313.


                 committee on rules and administration

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on 
Rules and Administration will meet on Wednesday, July 24, 2013, at 9:50 
a.m., to conduct a business meeting to consider the nomination of 
Davita Vance-Cooks, of Virginia, to be the public printer, and to 
consider S. 375, a bill to require Senate candidates to file 
designations, statements, and reports in electronic format.
  For further information regarding this hearing, please contact Lynden 
Armstrong at the Rules and Administration Committee, (202) 224-6352.


                 COMMITTEE ON RULES AND ADMINISTRATION

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, I wish to announce that the Committee on 
Rules and Administration will meet on Wednesday, July 24, 2013, at 10 
a.m. to hear testimony on the nomination of Ann Miller Ravel and Lee E. 
Goodman to be members of the Federal Election Commission.
  For further information regarding this hearing, please contact Jean 
Bordewich at the Rules and Administration Committee, (202) 224-6352.

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