The House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on Water and Power, led by Rep. Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA), will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills:

• H.R. 123 (Dreier): To authorize appropriations for the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund.
  
  
• H.R. 2498 (Costa): To provide for a study regarding development of a comprehensive integrated regional water management plan that would address four general areas of regional water planning in both the San Joaquin River Hydrologic Region and the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region, inclusive of Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin Counties, California, and to provide that such plan be the guide by which those counties use as a mechanism to address and solve long-term water needs in a sustainable and equitable manner.
  
  
• H.R. 2535 (Nunes): To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility and suitability of constructing a storage reservoir, outlet works, and a delivery system for the Tule River Indian Tribe of California to provide a water supply for domestic, municipal, industrial, and agricultural purposes, and for other purposes. (Tule River Tribe Water Development Act)

Subject:
House Subcommittee on Water and Power
Legislative Hearing on H.R. 123, H.R. 2498 and H.R. 2535

When:
Tuesday, September 25, 2007, at 10:00 a.m.

Where:
Room 1324 Longworth House Office Building

Witnesses:
Panel 1 (H.R. 123)

Robert Quint, Acting Deputy Commissioner for Operations, Bureau of Reclamation, Washington, D.C.

Michael Whitehead, President, San Gabriel Valley Water Company; Board member, San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority, West Covina, CA
Donald Jensen, Director of Public Works, Santa Fe Springs, CA

* Mr. Jensen will also be accompanied by Art Aguilar, General Manager of the Central Basin Municipal Water District

Panel 2 (H.R. 2498 and H.R. 2535)

Robert Quint, Acting Deputy Commissioner for Operations, Bureau of Reclamation, Washington, D.C.
Sargeant "Sarge" Green, Manager, Westside Resource Conservation District; Consultant to the California Water Institute, Fresno, CA
Richard M. Moss, P.E., Provost & Pritchard Engineering Group, Inc., Visalia, CA
Alec Garfield, Director, Water Resources Department, Tule River Tribal Council, Porterville, CA

Philip Gregg Larson, President, South Tule Independent Ditch Company, Porterville, CA

Opening Statement
Chairwoman Grace Napolitano