STATEMENTS FROM HEARINGS HELD 105TH CONGRESS, SECOND SESSION

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Index:

• October 8, 1998. Hearing on the nomination of Robert W. Perciasepe. Full committee.
• October 8, 1998. Hearing on scientific and engineering issues relating to Columbia/Snake River system salmon recovery. Subcommittee on Drinking Water, Fisheries and Wildlife.
• October 7, 1998. Hearing on the nominations of Isadore Rosenthal, Andrea Kidd Taylor, and William Clifford Smith. Full committee.
• October 6, 1998. Acid Deposition Act, S. 1097. Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety hearing.
• October 1, 1998. Regional Haze and Mercury Pollution. Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety hearing.
• October 1, 1998. Nominations of Greta Joy Dicus and Jeffrey S. Merrifield. Full committee hearing.
• September 29, 1998. Migratory Bird Treaty Reform Act, H.R. 2863. Full committee hearing.
• September 23, 1998. Consolidation of the Patent and Trademark Office building complex. Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure hearing.
• September 22, 1998. S. 2470, a bill to amend the Coastal Barrier Resources System Act. Full committee hearing.
• September 17, 1998. FY99 Capital Investment and Leasing Program of the General Services Administration; the FY99 courthouse construction requests of the Judicial Conference of the United States; and S. 2481, the Public Buildings Reform Act of 1998. Full committee hearing.
• September 16, 1998. Use of methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE) in gasoline, and S. 1576. Full committee hearing.
• September 10, 1998. Nominations of Terrence L. Bracy to be a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation, and Norine E. Noonan to be Assistant Administrator for Research and Development, Environmental Protection Agency. Full committee hearing.
• July 30, 1998. Nominations of Romulo Diaz and J. Edward Fox to be Assistant Administrators of the Environmental Protection Agency. Full committee hearing.
• July 30, 1998. Review of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety hearing.
• July 23, 1998. Oversight of FEMA. Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety hearing
• July 15, 1998. Nomination of Nikki L. Tinsley to be Inspector General of the Environmental Protection Agency. Full committee hearing.
• July 14, 1998. Reauthorization of Economic Development Administration, S. 1647. Subcommittee hearing.
• July 9, 1998. Estuary Restoration bills. S. 1222 and S. 1321, and H.R. 2207, to construct a deep ocean outfall off the coast of Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. Full committee hearing.
• July 7, 1998. Several Fish and Wildlife Conservation Bills. Full committee hearing.
• June 23, 1998. Water Resources Development Act reauthorization, S. 2131. Subcommittee hearing.
• June 7, 1998. Montana Fish and Wildlife Act. Full committee field hearing.
• April 23, 1998. Regional Haze. Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property and Nuclear Safety hearing.
• April 1, 1998. Environmental Tobacco Smoke. Full Committee Hearing.
• February 17, 1998. Federal Building Leasing Process. Full Committee Field Hearing.
• February 3, 1998. Nominations of Donald Barry and Sallyanne Harper. Full Committee Hearing.

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Statements by Senators and Representatives from the Northwestern States:

Statements by the witnesses:
Daniel D. Roby
Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon

Joseph Cloud
Professor of Zoology
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Idaho
Moscow, Idaho

Richard K. Fisher, Jr.
Vice President, Technology
Voith Hydro, Inc.
York, Pennsylvania

Colonel Eric Mogren
Deputy Commander, Northwestern Division
United States Army Corps of Engineers
Portland, Oregon

Danny Consenstein
Columbia Basin Coordinator
National Marine Fisheries Service
Seattle, Washington

Statements by the witnesses:
Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato, New York

Rep. Gerald Solomon, New York

Brian McLean, Director
Acid Rain Division Office of Air and Radiation
Environmental Protection Agency

Edward "Skip" Kropp
Deputy Director, Office of Air Quality
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
Charleston, West Virginia

Bernard Melewski
Counsel and Legislative Director
The Adirondack Council
Albany, New York

William F. Tyndall
Vice President of Environmental Services
Cinergy Corporation
Cincinnati, Ohio

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Statements by the witnesses:
Greta Joy Dicus, of Arkansas, nominated by the President to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Statements by the witnesses:
Sen. Thad Cochran, Mississippi

Sen. John Breaux, Louisiana

Statement of Sen. Trent Lott, Mississippi

Kevin Adams
Chief, Office of Law Enforcement
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
U.S. Department of Interior

Doug Inkley
Senior Scientist and Special Assistant to the President
National Wildlife Federation
Vienna, Virginia

Tanya Metaksa
Executive Director, Institute for Legislative Action
National Rifle Association
Fairfax, Virginia

Laura Hood
Director of Science
Defenders of Wildlife

Brent Manning
Director, Illinois Department of Environmental Resources,
on behalf of the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies

Statements by the witnesses:
Robert A. Peck
Commissioner, Public Buildings Service General Services Administration
Washington, DC

Bruce A. Lehman
Commissioner
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Arlington, VA

Michael Kirk
Executive Director
American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association
Arlington, VA

Peter J. Sepp
Vice President for Communications
National Taxpayers Union
Alexandria, VA

David Williams
Research Director
Citizens Against Government Waste
Washington, DC

Johnnie Frazier
Acting Inspector General
U.S. Department of Commerce
Washington, DC

Allan V. Burman
President, Jefferson Solutions
Washington, DC

Samuel R. Collins
Engagement Partner
Deva & Associates, P.C.
Bethesda, MD

Statements submitted for the record:
Sen. John McCain, Arizona

Sen. Orrin Hatch, Utah

Eisenhower Civic Association


International Trademark Association

Statements by the witnesses:
Gerry Jackson
Assistant Director for Ecological Services
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Service

Jacqueline Savitz
Executive Director
Coast Alliance

Thomas Z. Hayward, Jr.
President
Terra Cotta Realty, Inc.

Ralph DeGennaro
Executive Director
Taxpayers for Common Sense

Statement by the witnesses:
Robert A. Peck
Commissioner, Public Buildings Service
General Services Administration
Washington, D.C.

Judge Norman H. Stahl
U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Chairman, Committee on Security and Facilities
Judicial Conference of the United States
Concord, N.H.

A. Peter Burleigh
Acting U.S. Representative to the United Nations
U.S. Mission to the United Nations
New York City, N.Y.

Judge Michael Ponsor
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts
Springfield, MA.

Judge B. Avant Edenfield
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Georgia
Savannah, GA.

Opening Statements:

Statement by the witnesses:

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California

Rep. Brian Bilbray, California

John D. Dunlap III
Chairman, California Air Resources Board
Sacramento, California

Ned Sullivan
Commissioner, Maine Department of Environmental Conservation
Augusta, Maine

Daniel S. Greenbaum
President, Health Effects Institute
Cambridge, Massachusetts

Al Jessel
Senior Fuels Specialist, Chevron Products Company
San Francisco, California

Douglas A. Durante
Executive Director, Clean Fuels Development Coalition
Arlington, Virginia

Additional Statements submitted by:
Sen. Thomas Daschle, South Dakota

Robert W. Gee
Assistant Secretary, Office of Policy and International Affairs
Department of Energy

Margo T. Oge
Director of Office of Mobile Sources
Office of Air and Radiation
Environmental Protection Agency

Opening Statements:

Statement by the witnesses:

Terrence L. Bracy,
Nominated to be Member of the Board of Trustees
of the Morris K. Udall Scholarship and Excellence in National Environmental Policy Foundation

Opening Statements:

Statement by the witnesses:
Romulo Diaz,
Nominated to be Assistant Administrator for Administration
Environmental Protection Agency

J. Charles Fox,
Nominated to be Assistant Adminstrator for Water
Environmental Protection Agency

Opening Statements:

Statement by witnesses:

Chairman Shirley Ann Jackson
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Nils Diaz
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Edward McGaffigan
Nuclear Regulatory Commission

Joe F. Colvin
President and CEO
Nuclear Energy Institute
Washington, D.C.

James T. Rhodes
Chairman and CEO
Institute of Nuclear Power Operations
Atlanta, GA

Gary Jones
Associate Director for Energy Resources and Science Issues
U. S. General Accounting Office
Washington, D.C.

David Lochbaum
Nuclear Safety Engineer
Union of Concerned Scientists
Washington, D.C.

Steven M. Fetter
Managing Director
Global Power Group
Fitch IBCA Inc.
New York, NY

Opening Statements:

Statement by witnesses:

James Lee Witt
Director
Federal Emergency Management Agency

Hal Daub
Mayor, Omaha, Nebraska,
on behalf of the National League of Cities

Joseph Myers
Director, Florida Division of Emergency Management
Tallahasse, Florida,
on behalf of the National Emergency Management Association

Albert Ashwood
Director, Oklahoma Department of Civil Emergency Management
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Dan Summers
Director, Department of Emergency Management for New Hanover County,
Wilmington, North Carolina

Opening Statements:

Statement by the witness:
Nikki L. Tinsley,

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Statements by witnesses:
William Daley,
Secretary of Commerce

Opening Statements:

Statements by witnesses:

S. 263, Bear Protection Act
S. 361, Rhino and Tiger Product Labeling Act
S. 659, Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife Restoration Act of 1997
S. 1970, Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act of 1998
S. 2094, Fish and Wildlife Revenue Enhancement Act of 1998
S. 2244, National Wildlife Refuge System Volunteer and Partnership Enhancement Act of 1998
H.R. 2807, Rhino and Tiger Product Labeling Act
H.R. 3113, Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Reauthorization Act of 1998

Opening Statements by Members of the Committee on Environment and Public Works:

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Statements by the Witnesses:
John Rogers
Deputy Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Washington, DC

Ginette Hemley
Vice President for Species Conservation, World Wildlife Fund
Washington, DC

Wayne Pacelle
Senior Vice President, The Humane Society of the United States
Washington, DC

Kristin Vehrs
Deputy Director, American Zoo and Aquarium Association
Bethesda, MD

Molly Krival
Past President, Ding Darling Wildlife Society
Sanibel, FL

Gary Taylor
Legislative Director, International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
Washington, DC

Thomas Crane
Program Manager, Great Lakes Commission
Ann Arbor, MI

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Joseph Westphal
Assistant Secretary for Civil Works
U.S. Department of the Army

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