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Full Committee Oversight Hearing on “The Impact of the Administration’s Wild Lands Order on Jobs and Economic Growth” Tuesday, March 1, 2011 2:00 PM

COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES 1324 Longworth House Office Building Tuesday, March 1, 2011 2:00 p.m.

OVERSIGHT HEARING ON: Witnesses

Panel I

• C.L. “Butch” Otter, Governor, State of Idaho
• Gary R. Herbert, Governor, State of Utah

Panel II

• Joel Bousman, Sublette County Commissioner
• Mike McKee, Uintah County Commissioner
• Lesley Robinson, Phillips County Commissioner
• Dennis C.W. Smith, Jackson County Commissioner
• William G. Myers, III, Partner, Holland and Hart
• Peter Metcalf, CEO/President, Black Diamond Equipment
• Mark Squillace, Director, Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado Law School

Panel III

• Robert Abbey, Director, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior

Witnesses

Panel 1

• Mike Carey, President, Ohio Coal Association
• Paul Cicio, President, Industrial Energy Consumers of America
• Hugh A. Joyce, President, James River Air Conditioning Company, Inc.
• Forrest McConnell, President, McConnell Honda & Acura
• W. David Montgomery, Vice President, Charles River Associates
• Dan Reicher, Executive Director, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance at Stanford University

Panel 2

• Gina A. McCarthy, Assistant Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, United States Environmental Protection Agency

Witness

• Dr. John P. Holdren, Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy

Witnesses

• Thomas J. Donohue, President and CEO, U.S. Chamber of Commerce
• Richard L. Trumka, President, AFL-CIO

Leo Gerard, international president of United Steelworkers

• Paul Cicio, president of the Industrial Energy Consumers of America
• John Danner, president and CEO of Northern Power Systems
• David Montgomery, Vice president of Charles River Associates
• Kate Gordon, vice president of energy policy for the Center for American Progress

The hearing will examine how and whether federal regulatory agencies are conducting the type of economic analysis necessary for policymakers to understand how regulations affect employers’ ability to retain workers and hire new ones, and avoid unnecessary cost burdens.

Witnesses Dr. Donald F. Boesch, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Terry D. Garcia, National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Admiral Thad Allen, Ret., national incident commander for the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

House Natural Resources ranking Democrat Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., and Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. hold a news conference to announce the “Ending Big Oil Tax Subsidies (EBOTS) Act.”

Contact: Eben Burnham-Snyder, 202-225-6065 (Markey) or Derek Schlickeisen, 202-225-0820 (Blumenauer)

The Natural Resources Defense Council holds a conference call briefing, beginning at 11 a.m., to discuss and release a survey on data that show strong public opposition to “dismantling the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) updates to clean-up standards for carbon, smog and other pollution” proposed by House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton, R-Mich.

Patricipants

• Peter Altman, climate campaign director of the Natural Resources Defense Council
• Tom Jensen, director of Public Policy Polling

Contact: Leslie Anderson, 703-276-3256, [email protected]

Call-in, 800-860-2442; ask for the “EPA/Energy and Commerce Committee member surveys” news event. A streaming audio replay of the news event will be available at 4 p.m. February 10 online: http://www.nrdc.org