Please be advised that a hearing has been scheduled before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The hearing will be held on Wednesday, June 27, 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 S. 1171, a bill to amend the Colorado River Storage Project Act and Public Law 87-483; to authorize the construction and rehabilitation of water infrastructure in Northwestern New Mexico; to authorize the use of the reclamation fund to fund the Reclamation Water Settlements Fund; to authorize the conveyance of certain Reclamation land and infrastructure; to authorize the Commissioner of Reclamation to provide for the delivery of water; and to resolve the Navajo Nation’s water rights claims in the San Juan River basin in New Mexico.