The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills: 2354, to direct the Secretary of the Interior to convey 4 parcels of land from the Bureau of Land Management to the city of Twin Falls, Idaho; S. 3065, to establish the Dominguez-Escalante National Conservation Area and the Dominguez Canyon Wilderness Area; S. 3069, to designate certain land as wilderness in the State of California, and for other purposes; S. 3085, to require the Secretary of the Interior to establish a cooperative watershed management program, and for other purposes; H.R. 3473, to provide for a land exchange with the City of Bountiful, Utah, involving National Forest System land in the Wasatch-Cache National Forest and to further land ownership consolidation in that national forest, and for other purposes; H.R. 3490, to transfer administrative jurisdiction of certain Federal lands from the Bureau of Land Management to the Bureau of Indian Affairs, to take such lands into trust for Tuolumne Band of Me-Wuk Indians of the Tuolumne Rancheria, and for other purposes; H.R. 3651, to require the conveyance of certain public land within the boundaries of Camp Williams, Utah, to support the training and readiness of the Utah National Guard; H.R. 2632, to establish the Sabinoso Wilderness Area in San Miguel County, New Mexico, and for other purposes; and S. 2448, to amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to make certain technical corrections.
Witness Panel 2
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Henri Bisson
Deputy DirectorBureau of Land Management -
Mr. Joel Holtrop
Deputy Chief of the National Forest SystemForest Service, Department of Agriculture -
The Honorable Brent Wahlquist
DirectorOffice of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement, DOI
Witness Panel 3
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Tom Hinz
ChairmanGreater Galltin Watershed Council, Inc. -
The Honorable Jan McCracken
Delta County CommissionerDelta County
Witness Panel 1
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The Honorable Barbara Boxer
U.S. Senate