Volume 145, No. 133 covering the 1st Session of the 106th Congress (1999 - 2000) was published by the Congressional Record.
The Congressional Record is a unique source of public documentation. It started in 1873, documenting nearly all the major and minor policies being discussed and debated.
“Senate Committee Meetings” mentioning the Environmental Protection Agency was published in the Daily Digest section on pages D1089-D1090 on Oct. 5, 1999.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
COMPREHENSIVE TEST BAN TREATY
Committee on Armed Services: Committee held closed hearings on issues relating to military implications of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
(Treaty Doc. 105-28), receiving testimony from officials of the Department of Energy and the Intelligence Community.
Hearings continue tomorrow.
MANUFACTURED HOUSING IMPROVEMENT
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Subcommittee on Housing and Transportation concluded hearings on S. 1452, to modernize the requirements under the National Manufactured Housing Construction and Safety Standards of 1974 and to establish a balanced consensus process for the development, revision, and interpretation of Federal construction and safety standards for manufactured homes, after receiving testimony from Senator Bayh; William Apgar, Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Housing/Federal Housing Commissioner; William Lear, Fleetwood Enterprises, Inc., Riverside, California, on behalf of the Coalition to Improve the Manufactured Housing Act; and Rutherford Brice, Decatur, Georgia, on behalf of the American Association of Retired Persons.
SECURE RURAL SCHOOLS AND COMMUNITY SELF-DETERMINATION
Committee on Energy and Natural Resources: Subcommittee on Forests and Public Land Management concluded hearings on S. 1608, to provide annual payments to the States and counties from National Forest System lands managed by the Forest Service, and the revested Oregon and California Railroad and reconveyed Coos Bay Wagon Road grant lands managed predominately by the Bureau of Land Management, for use by the counties in which the lands are situated for the benefit of the public schools, roads, emergency and other public purposes; to encourage and provide new mechanism for cooperation between counties and the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to make necessary investments in federal lands, and reaffirm the positive connection between Federal Lands counties and Federal Lands, after receiving testimony from Idaho State Representative Shirley Ringo; Bob Douglas, National Forest Counties and Schools Coalition, Tehama County, California; Jane O'Keefe, Oregon Counties Public Lands Committee, Lake County; Jack H. Summers, Jr., Liberty County School District, Liberty County, Florida; Steven K. Troha, Allegheny Forest Coalition, Kane Pennsylvania; Phil Davis, Valley County Board of Commissioners, Valley County, Idaho; R. Chris von Doenhoff, Houston County Court, Houston County, Texas; David Schmidt, Linn County Board of Commissioner, Linn County, Oregon; Michael A. Francis, Wilderness Society, Washington, D.C.; and Doug Robertson, Association of O and C Counties, Roseburg, Oregon.
MTBE FUEL ADDITIVE
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Subcommittee on Clean Air, Wetlands, Private Property, and Nuclear Safety concluded hearings to examine the Environmental Protection Agency's Blue Ribbon Panel findings on the use of Oxygenates and MTBE, methyl tertiary-butyl ether, in gasoline, after receiving testimony from former Senator Jake Garn, on behalf of the Huntsman Corporation, Salt Lake City, Utah Daniel S. Greenbaum, Health Effects Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency's Blue Ribbon Panel; Michael P. Kenney, California Air Resources Board, Sacramento, on behalf of the California Environmental Protection Agency; and Robert H. Campbell, Sunoco, Inc.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
INTERCOUNTRY ADOPTION
Committee on Foreign Relations: Committee concluded hearings on the Convention On Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption (Treaty Doc. 105-51), and S. 682, to implement the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercounty Adoption, after receiving testimony from Mary A. Ryan, Assistant Secretary of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs; Ronald S. Federici, Psychiatric and Neuropsychological Associates, Alexandria, Virginia; Barbara A. Holtan, Tressler Lutheran Services, York, Pennsylvania; Tomilee Harding, Christian World Adoption, Hendersonville, North Carolina, Mark T. McDermott, American Academy of Adoption Attorneys, Washington, D.C.; and Susan Soon-Keum Cox, Holt International Children's Services, Eugene, Oregon.
AFRICA DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
Committee on Foreign Relations: Subcommittee on African Affairs continued hearings to examine the effectiveness of United States development assistance to Africa and the implementation of United States foreign policy, receiving testimony from Nicholas N. Eberstadt, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and Carol Lancaster, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, both of Washington, D.C.
Hearings recessed subject to call.
ASBESTOS EXPOSURE LITIGATION
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts concluded hearings on the S. 758, to establish legal standards and procedures for the fair, prompt, inexpensive, and efficient resolution of personal injury claims arising out of asbestos exposure, after receiving testimony from Representatives Gekas, Moran, Cannon, and Scott; Christopher Edley, Jr, Harvard Law School, Boston, Massachusetts; Jonathan P. Hiatt, American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and Karen Kerrigan, Small Business Survival Committee, both of Washington, D.C.; former Michigan Supreme Court Chief Justice Conrad L. Mallet, Jr., Detroit, on behalf of the Coalition for Asbestos Resolution; Samuel J. Heyman, GAF Corporation, Wayne, New Jersey; Richard Middleton, Jr., Middleton, Mathis, Adams, and Tate, Savannah, Georgia, on behalf of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Michael Green, University of Iowa College of Law, Iowa City; Richard A. Nagareda, University of Georgia School of Law, Athens; and Paul R. Verkuil, Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York, New York.
INTELLIGENCE
Select Committee on Intelligence: Committee held closed hearings on intelligence matters, receiving testimony from officials of the intelligence community.
Committee will meet again tomorrow.
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