Media Advisory: Public Lands and Forests Subcommittee Hearing Scheduled

May 3, 2006
12:36 PM

Who:        Public Lands & Forests Subcommittee

When:      Wednesday, May 10 at 2:30 p.m.

Where:     SD-366

Why:        To receive testimony of the following bills:  S. 906, to promote wildland firefighter safety; S. 2003, to make permanent the authorization for watershed restoration and enhancement agreements; H.R. 585, to require Federal land managers to support, and to communicate, coordinate, and cooperate with, designated gateway communities, to improve the ability of gateway communities to participate in Federal land management planning conducted by the Forest Service and agencies of the Department of the Interior, and to respond to the impacts of the public use of the Federal lands administered by these agencies; and H.R. 3981, to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out certain land exchanges involving small parcels of National Forest System land in the Tahoe National Forest in the State of California.