Washington, D.C. – The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee will hold one subcommittee hearing next week.
The National Parks subcommittee will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 28 at 10:00 a.m. in SD – 366 to receive testimony on the following bills: S. 206, a bill to designate the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail; S. 556, a bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to jointly conduct a study of certain land adjacent to the Walnut Canyon National Monument in the State of Arizona; S. 588, a bill to amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture to jointly conduct a study on the feasibility of designating the Arizona Trail as a national scenic trail or a national historic trail; and S. 955, a bill to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a special resource study to determine the suitability and feasibility of including in the National Park System certain sites in Williamson County, Tennessee, relating to the Battle of Franklin.
Invited Witnesses Include:
Panel 1
Mr. Donald Murphy
Deputy Director
National Park Service
Panel 2
Ms. Elizabeth Archuleta
Chairman
Coconino County Board of Supervisors
Flagstaff, Arizona
Mr. Tom Miller
Mayor
City of Franklin
Franklin, Tennessee
Mr. Gary Kleinknecht
President
Ice Age Floods Institute
Kennewick, Washington
Mr. Larry Snead
Executive Director
Arizona Trail Association
Phoenix, Arizona
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