The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills: S. 205 and H.R. 865, to grant rights-of-way for electric transmission lines over certain Native allotments in the State of Alaska; S.390, to direct the exchange of certain land in Grand, San Juan, and Uintah Counties, Utah; S.647, to designate certain land in the State of Oregon as wilderness; S.1139, to establish the National Landscape Conservation System; H.R. 276, to designate the Piedras Blancas Light Station and the surrounding public land as an Outstanding Natural Area to be administered as a part of the National Landscape Conservation System; and H.R. 356, to remove certain restrictions on the Mammoth Community Water District’s ability to use certain property acquired by that District from the United States.
Witness Panel 1
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Jim Hughes
Acting DirectorBureau of Land Managment -
Honorable Mark Rey
Natural Resources and the Environment: Department of Agriculture
Witness Panel 2
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John Sterling
Executive DirectorOutdoor Industry Conservation Alliance -
Kevin Carter
DirectorUtah School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration -
Richard Moe
PresidentNational Trust for Historic Preservation -
Ron Suppah
ChairmanThe Confederate Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon -
Ty Cobb
Board MemberGrand Canyon Trust -
The Honorable Martha Schrader
ChairClackamas County Board of Commissioners