Volume 148, No. 61 covering the 2nd Session of the 107th Congress (2001 - 2002) 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 D480-D482 on May 14, 2002.
The publication is reproduced in full below:
Committee Meetings
(Committees not listed did not meet)
NATIONAL EXPORT STRATEGY
Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs: Committee concluded oversight hearings to examine the Annual National Export Strategy Report of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee, focusing on the ability to foster development in, and trade with, South- and South-East Asia and Africa, in order to promote international stability, after receiving testimony from Donald L. Evans, Secretary of Commerce, Eduardo Aguirre, Vice Chairman and First Vice President, Export-Import Bank of the United States, Hector V. Barreto, Administrator, Small Business Administration, Thelma J. Askey, Director, U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and Ross J. Connelly, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, all on behalf of the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee.
TRIBAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation/Committee on Indian Affairs: Committees concluded joint oversight hearings to examine telecommunications issues in Indian country, focusing on telecom carriers, tribal governments, and the siting of communications towers, after receiving testimony from K. Dane Snowden, Chief, Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau, Federal Communications Commission; Susan Masten, Yurok Tribe, Eureka, California; Marcia Warren Edelman, S. M. E. LLC, Arlington, Virginia, former Senior Policy Advisor for Native American Affairs, Department of Commerce; Michael Strand, Montana Independent Telecommunications Systems, Helena; John Stanton, Western Wireless Corporation, Bellevue, Washington; and William Day, United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc., Pineville, Louisiana.
PACIFIC SALMON MANAGEMENT AND RECOVERY
Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation: Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, and Fisheries concluded hearings on S. 1825, to authorize the Secretary of Commerce to provide financial assistance to the States of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, California, and Idaho and tribes in the region for salmon habitat restoration projects in coastal waters and upland drainages, and related pacific salmon management issues, after receiving testimony from Senators Crapo and Thompson; Donald R. Knowles, Director, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce; Dirk Brazil, California Department of Fish and Game, Sacramento; Geoffrey M. Huntington, Oregon Watershed Enhancement Board, Salem; Laura E. Johnson, Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board/Interagency Committee for Outdoor Recreation, Olympia; James L. Caswell, Idaho Governor's Office of Species Conservation, Boise; Robert Thorstenson, United Fishermen of Alaska, Juneau; Glen Spain, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, Eugene, Oregon; and Harold Blackwolf, Sr., Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon Fish and Wildlife Committee, Madras, on behalf of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.
PERSISTENT ORGANIC POLLUTANTS IMPLEMENTATION
Committee on Environment and Public Works: Committee concluded hearings on S. 2118, to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants and the Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, and S. 2507, to amend the Toxic Substances Control Act and the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act to implement the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the Protocol on Persistent Organic Pollutants to the Convention on Long-Range Transboundary Air Pollution, and the Rotterdam Convention on the Prior Informed Consent Procedure for Certain Hazardous Chemicals and Pesticides in International Trade, after receiving testimony from Jeffry M. Burnam, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Environment, Bureau of Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs; Stephen L. Johnson, Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, Environmental Protection Agency; Warren Muir, National Academy of Sciences National Research Council, Brooks B. Yeager, World Wildlife Fund, and Karen L. Perry, Physicians for Social Responsibility, all of Washington, D.C.; John Buccini, United Nations Environment Programme Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee, Ontario, Canada; and Michael Walls, American Chemistry Council, Arlington, Virginia.
TOBACCO MARKETING ON WOMEN
Committee on Governmental Affairs: Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, Restructuring and the District of Columbia concluded hearings to examine the impact of tobacco marketing on women and girls, focusing on promotional targeting techniques and women's health, after receiving testimony from Cristina Beato, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Health; Elizabeth M. Whelan, American Council on Science and Health, and Diane E. Stover, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, on behalf of the American College of Chest Physicians and the CHEST Foundation, both of New York, New York; Charles King III, Harvard Business School, Boston, Massachusetts; Matthew L. Myers, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, Washington, D.C.; and Cassandra Coleman, Chicago, Illinois.
DNA EVIDENCE
Committee on the Judiciary: Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs concluded hearings to examine seeking justice for sexual assault victims, focusing on Department of Justice efforts to promote the use of DNA evidence to combat crime and impact of the Debbie Smith Act on crime laboratories throughout the United States, after receiving testimony from Sarah V. Hart, Director, National Institute of Justice, and Dwight E. Adams, Assistant Director, Laboratory Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation, both of the Department of Justice; Linda A. Fairstein, former Chief of the New York County District Attorney's Office Sex Crimes Prosecution Unit, New York, New York; Debra S. Holbrook, Nanticoke Memorial Hospital, Seaford, Delaware; Susan Narveson, Phoenix Police Department Laboratory Services Bureau, Phoenix, Arizona, on behalf of the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors; J. Tom Morgan, Stone Mountain Judicial District Attorney, De Kalb County, Georgia, on behalf of the National District Attorneys Association; and Debbie Smith, Williamsburg, Virginia.
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