Legislative Hearing on H.R. 2011 and H.R. 1314
Friday, June 3, 2011 9:30 AM
Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources
1324 Longworth House Office Building
SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Friday, June 3, 2011
9:30 a.m.
- Watch the Archived Hearing Webcast
- Official hearing transcript
- Press Release - Lamborn, Hastings Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Revitalize American Minerals Policy and Production (5/26/2011)
- Press Release - Experts Agree: United States’ Dependence on Foreign Strategic and Critical Minerals Costs Jobs, Threatens National Security (5/24/2011)
- Hearing - Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Oversight Hearing on "Strategic and Critical Minerals Policy: Domestic Minerals Supplies and Demands in a time of Foreign Supply Disruptions" (5/24/2011)
- Resourceful Information - The Importance of Critical Minerals in Our Everyday Lives (5/23/2011)
LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON:
- H.R. 2011 (Lamborn), the "National Strategic and Critical Minerals Policy Act"
- H.R. 1314 (H. Johnson), To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a global rare earth element assessment, and for other purposes. "Resource Assessment of Rare Earths Act of 2011"
OPENING STATEMENTS:
The Honorable Doug Lamborn
Chairman
The Honorable Doc Hastings
Full Committee Chairman
WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY:
Panel I
Jeff L. Doebrich
Mineral Resources Program Coordinator (Acting)
U.S. Geological Survey
Department of the Interior
Accompanied by:
Marcilynn Burke
Deputy Director
Bureau of Land Management
Department of the Interior
The Honorable Dan Sullivan
Commissioner
Alaska Department of Natural Resources
Steven Duclos
Chief Scientist and Manager-Materials Sustainability
General Electric
Testifying on behalf of National Association of Manufacturers
(Truth in Testimony Form)
James B. Engdahl
President & Chief Executive Officer
Great Western Minerals Group LTD
(Truth in Testimony Form)