Week of May 29

No business
Memorial Day district work period

San Francisco Chronicle
House Votes Major Changes to Endangered Species Act

Endangered Species Act
Implementation of the 1973 ESA

ANWR Energy Exploration:
Putting it in Perspective

Dow Jones:
Lawmaker Eyes Energy Bill To Halt CNOOC-Unocal

Legislative Hearing on:

H.R. 408, to provide for expansion of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore;

H.R. 532, to revise the boundaries of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area in the State of California, to restore and extend the term of the advisory commission for the recreation area, and for other purposes; and

H.R. 1289, to establish the National Parks Institute at the University of California, Merced, and for other purposes.

Witnesses

Panel 1:

The Honorable Dave Camp, Representative from the 4th District of Michigan, (H.R. 408)

The Honorable Tom Lantos, Representative from the 12th District of California, (H.R. 532)

Panel 2:

Mr. Dan Smith, Special Assistant to the Director, National Park Service, Washington, D.C.
Click on bill for testimony: (H.R. 408, H.R. 532 and H.R. 1289)

Panel 3:

The Honorable James Ridenour, Former Director, National Park Service, Bloomington, Indiana, (H.R. 408)

Ms. Audrey C. Rust, President, Peninsula Open Space Trust, Menlo Park, California, (H.R. 532)

Mr. Bill Pauli, President, California Farm Bureau Federation, Sacramento, California, (H.R. 532)

Dr. Carol Tomlinson-Keasey, Chancellor, University of California, Merced, Merced, California, (H.R. 1289)