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This hearing is the first in a series of hearings exploring emerging themes in transportation policy and practice, the needs of our national surface transportation system, and the reauthorization of our surface transportation laws. The Subcommittee will continue this series by holding hearings in the near future on the issues surrounding freight access and goods movement, infrastructure preservation and modernization, highway safety, mobility and connectivity of rural areas, and other issues.

Witnesses

• Robert Puentes, Metropolitan Policy Program at The Brookings Institution
• Robert D. Yaro, President of the Regional Plan Association in New York
• The Honorable Ron Sims, King County Executive, Seattle, Washington
• Jolene Molitoris, Assistant Director of the Ohio Department of Transportation
• Michael R. Wiley, Executive Director of Sacramento Regional Transit District
• Ron Kirby, Transportation Director of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Witnesses

• Tim Williford, Chairman Government Affairs Committee, Plumbing-Heating-Cooling Contractors – National Association (PHCC)
• Gary Gilberti, Chesapeake Rehab Equipment
• John Urbanchuk, Director, LECG, LLC
• Michael J. Graff, President & CEO Graff Trucking, Inc.
• Vincent F. Orza, Jr., Dean, Meinders School of Business, Oklahoma City University

Witnesses * The Honorable James Rispoli, Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, Department of Energy * The Honorable Edward F. Sproat, III, Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste Management, Department of Energy

Witnesses

• The Honorable John Paul Woodley, Jr, Assistant Secretary of the Army, Department of Army
• LTG Hans Van Antwerp, Chief of Engineers, Army Corps of Engineers
• Kameran Onley, Assistant Deputy Secretary, Department of Interior
• Robert L. Johnson, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation

Please join mountain lovers from across the country to:

Celebrate Appalachia

Join citizens in the fight to protect their communities from mountaintop removal mining.

Reception Hosted By:

The Alliance For Appalachia

Appalachian Citizens Law Center * Appalachian Voices * Appalshop * Coal River Mountain Watch * Heartwood * Kentuckians For The Commonwealth * MACED * Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition * Save Our Cumberland Mountains * Sierra Club Environmental Justice Program * Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards * Southwings * West Virginia Highlands Conservancy

With special thanks to:

Alaska Wilderness League, Appalachian Center for the Economy and the Environment, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Christians for the Mountains, EarthJustice, Environment America, Friends of the Earth, Natural Resource Defense Council, Rainforest Action Network, and the national Sierra Club.

RSVP to J.W. Randolph at (202) 669-3670 or [email protected]

Witnesses

• The Honorable Ed Schafer, Secretary of Agriculture
• Mr. Chuck Conner, Deputy Secretary of Agriculture
• Dr. Joseph Glauber, Chief Economist, Department of Agriculture
• Mr. W. Scott Steele, Budget Officer, Department of Agriculture

The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills: S.2259/H.R. 813, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Prado Basin Natural Treatment System Project, to authorize the Secretary to participate in the Lower Chino Dairy Area desalination demonstration and reclamation project, and for other purposes; H.R. 31, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Elsinore Valley Municipal Water District Wildomar Service Area Recycled Water Distribution Facilities and Alberhill Wastewater Treatment and Reclamation Facility Projects; H.R. 716, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Santa Rosa Urban Water Reuse Plan; H.R. 786, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Los Angeles County Water Supply Augmentation Demonstration Project, and for other purposes; H.R. 1140, to authorize the Secretary, in cooperation with the City of San Juan Capistrano, California, to participate in the design, planning, and construction of an advanced water treatment plant facility and recycled water system, and for other purposes; H.R. 1503, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Avra/Black Wash Reclamation and Riparian Restoration Project; H.R. 1725, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the Rancho California Water District Southern Riverside County Recycled/Non-Potable Distribution Facilities and Demineralization/Desalination Recycled Water Treatment and Reclamation Facility Project; H.R. 1737, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in the design, planning, and construction of permanent facilities for the GREAT project to reclaim, reuse, and treat impaired waters in the area of Oxnard, California; and H.R. 2614, to amend the Reclamation Wastewater and Groundwater Study and Facilities Act to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to participate in certain water projects in California.

Witness

• Mr. Kris Polly , Deputy Commissioner for External & Intergovernmental Affairs, Bureau of Reclamation, DOI

Key lawmakers are now promoting California’s energy and global warming policies as a model for the federal government and other States to follow. Thomas Tanton’s talk will review California’s policies and show that they have had significant costs as well as other detrimental effects and are likely to have even higher costs and even worse effects in the future. California’s policies have led to the highest electricity and gasoline prices in the continental U. S. and contributed to the de-industrialization of California.

Mr. Tanton’s talk is based on his new White Paper for the Competitive Enterprise Institute, California Energy Policy: a Cautionary Tale for the Nation. Copies will be available at the event and online at www.cei.org.

Please RSVP by e-mail to Julie Walsh at [email protected]. Please give your name and office or organization.

For more information, please call Myron Ebell at (202) 331-2256

The hearing will focus on international fisheries issues, including Regional Fisheries Management Councils (RFMO’s), compliance reporting and enforcement on the high seas.