Full Committee Hearing

Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests Hearing: to receive testimony on S.522, S.865 and H.R. 1442, S.881, S.940, S.1272, and S.1689 (Hearing Room SD-366).

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The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills: S. 522, to resolve the claims of the Bering Straits Native Corporation and the State of Alaska to land adjacent to Salmon Lake in the State of Alaska and to provide for the conveyance to the Bering Straits Native Corporation of certain other public land; S. 865 and H.R. 1442, to provide for the sale of the Federal Government’s reversionary interest in approximately 60 acres of land in Salt Lake City, Utah; S. 881, to provide for the settlement of certain claims under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act; S. 940, to convey to the Nevada System of Higher Education certain Federal land located in Clark and Nye counties, Nevada; S. 1272, to provide for the designation of the Devil’s Staircase Wilderness Area in the State of Oregon, to designate segments of Wasson and Franklin Creeks in the State of Oregon as wild or recreation rivers; and S. 1689, to designate certain land as components of the National Wilderness Preservation System and the National Landscape Conservation System in the State of New Mexico.

Witness Panel 3

  1. Bob Claus

    Southeast Alaska Conservation Council
  2. Byron Mallott

    Director
    Sealaska Corporation
  3. Jerry G. Schickedanz, Ph.D.

    Chairman
    People For Preserving Our Western Heritage
  4. The Honorable Oscar Vásquez Butler

    Vice-Chair
    Doña Ana County Board of Commissioners

Witness Panel 2

  1. Jay Jensen

    Deputy Undersecretary
    Natural Resources and the Environment, Department of Agriculture
  2. Ms. Marcilynn Burke

    Deputy Director
    Bureau of Land Management

Witness Panel 1

  1. The Honorable Mark Begich

    Senator
    United States Senate
  2. The Honorable Tom Udall

    U.S. Senate
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