The House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, led by Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills:

• H.R. 86 (Campbell): To eliminate an unused lighthouse reservation, provide management consistency by bringing the rocks and small islands along the coast of Orange County, California, and meet the original Congressional intent of preserving Orange County's rocks and small islands.
  
  
• H.R. 118 (Frelinghuysen): To authorize the addition of 100 acres to Morristown National Historical Park.
  
  
• H.R. 1925 (Hinchey): To designate as wilderness certain Federal portions of the red rock canyons of the Colorado Plateau and the Great Basin Deserts in Utah for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans. "America's Red Rock Wilderness Act of 2009"
  
  
• H.R. 2689 (Periello): To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virginia, as a unit of the National Park System.
  
  
• H.R. 2781 (Schrader): To amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate segments of the Molalla River in Oregon, as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
  
  
• H.R. 2888 (DeFazio): To provide for the designation of the Devil's Staircase Wilderness Area in the State of Oregon, to designate segments of Wasson and Franklin Creeks in the State of Oregon as wild or recreation rivers. "Devil's Staircase Wilderness Act of 2009"

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Subject:
House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands
Legislative Hearing on H.R. 86, H.R. 118, H.R. 1925, H.R. 2689, H.R. 2781, and H.R. 2888

When:
Thursday, October 1, 2009, at 10:00 a.m.

Where:
Room 1334 Longworth House Office Building

Witnesses:

Panel 1

Senator Orrin Hatch (Utah) (H.R. 1925)
Senator Robert F. Bennett (Utah) (H.R. 1925)
Representative Jim Matheson (UT-02) (H.R. 1925)
Representative Thomas Perriello (VA-05) (H.R. 2689)
Representative Kurt Schrader (OR-05) (H.R. 2781)

Panel 2

Robert V. Abbey (All Bills)
Director
Bureau of Land Management

Accompanied by:
Terrence D. Moore
Chief of Planning and Compliance
Northeast Region
National Park Service

Joel Holtrop (H.R. 2888)
Deputy Chief
National Forest System
Forest Service

Panel 3

William A. McIntosh (H.R.2689)
President and CEO
National D-Day Memorial Foundation
Bedford, VA

Michael Moody (H.R. 2781)
President
Molalla River Alliance
Molalla, OR

Andy Stahl (H.R. 2888)
Executive Director
Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics
Eugene, OR

Panel 4

The Honorable Gregory Bell (H.R. 1925)
Lieutenant Governor of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT

John Jones (H.R. 1925)
Carbon County Commissioner
Price, UT

Peter Metcalf (H.R. 1925)
CEO/ President & Co-Founder
Black Diamond Equipment Ltd.
Utah

Bryson Garbett (H.R. 1925)
Former Utah State Legislator
Salt Lake City, UT

Rocky Anderson (H.R 1925)
Former Mayor of Salt Lake City Utah

Opening Statement:
Chairman Raul Grijalva