Hearing

Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Legislative Hearing

Public Lands and Environmental Regulation | 05/17/2012

WHAT: Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands Legislative Hearing: 

  • ·HR 1103 (Sablan), To direct the Secretary of the Interior to develop, maintain, and administer an annex in Tinian, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, as an extension of the American Memorial Park located in Saipan, and for other purposes. “American Memorial Park Tinian Annex Act”
  • HR 3100 (Canseco), To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to expand the boundary of the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, to conduct a study of potential land acquisitions, and for other purposes.  “San Antonio Missions National Historical Park Boundary Expansion Act”
  • HR 3365 (Lummis), To reauthorize the Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act, and for other purposes. “Federal Land Transaction Facilitation Act Reauthorization of 2011”
  • HR 4400 (Markey), To designate the Salt Pond Visitor Center at Cape Cod National Seashore as the “Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Salt Pond Visitor Center,” and for other purposes.
  • S 270 (Wyden), A bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey certain Federal land to Deschutes County, Oregon.  “La Pine Land Conveyance Act”

WHERE: 1324 Longworth House Office Building, US Capitol Complex, Washington DC

WHEN: 2PM, Thursday, May 17, 2012

Opening Statement: Edward J. Markey, Ranking Member 

 

 

WITNESSES: 

Panel I

Rep. Francisco Canseco, R-TX (HR 3100)

Member of Congress

Rep. Cynthia Lummis, R-WY (HR 3365)
Member of Congress
 

Rep. Gregorio Kilili Camacho Sablan, D-CNMI (HR 1103)
Member of Congress

Rep. Greg Walden, R-OR (S 270)
Member of Congress

Panel II

Mike Pool
Deputy Director
Bureau of Land Management
U.S. Department of the Interior
(Testifying on HR 3365, S 270)

Victor Knox
Associate Director for Park Planning, Facilities and Lands
National Park Service
U.S. Department of the Interior
(Testifying on HR 1103, HR 3100, HR 4400)

Pamela Watson Bain
Chairman
Los Compadres de San Antonio Missions
(Testifying on HR 3100)

Leigh O’Neill
Representing the O’Neill family
(Testifying on HR 4400)