SUBCOMMITTEE ON INSULAR AFFAIRS, OCEANS AND WILDLIFE
1334 Longworth House Office Building
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
2:00 p.m.

• Archived hearing audiocast 

LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON:

• H.R. 860 (Bordallo), To reauthorize the Coral Reef Conservation Act of 2000, and for other purposes. "Coral Reef Conservation Act Reauthorization and Enhancement Amendments of 2009"
• H.R. 934 (Sablan), To convey certain submerged lands to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands in order to give that territory the same benefits in its submerged lands as Guam, the Virgin Islands, and American Samoa have in their submerged lands.

WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:

Panel I

The Honorable Felix P. Camacho
Governor of Guam

The Honorable Togiola T.A. Tulafono
Governor of American Samoa

The Honorable Benigno R. Fitial
Governor of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Panel II

Kacky Andrews
Director
Coral Reef Conservation Program
National Ocean Service
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Nikolao Pula
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary
Office of Insular Affairs
U.S. Department of the Interior

Evangeline D. Lujan
Chairperson
U.S. All Islands Coral Reef Committee

Ken Caldeira, Ph.D.
Department of Global Ecology
Carnegie Institution of Washington

Paul Dalzell
Senior Scientist
Western Pacific Fishery Regional Management Council