SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
2:00 p.m

LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON:

• H.R. 2262, To modify the requirements applicable to locatable minerals on public domain lands, consistent with the principles of self-initiation of mining claims, and for other purposes. "The Hardrock Mining and Reclamation Act of 2007" 

WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:

Panel I (Royalty Assessment)
 
Mr. Salvatore Lazarri
Specialist in Public Finance Resources
Science and Industry Division Congressional Research Service

Mr. James Otto
Independent Consultant

Mr. James F. Cress
Attorney
Holme Roberts & Owen LLP

Panel II (Abandoned Mine Reclamation)

Mr. Jim Hanlon
Director of the Office of Wastewater Management
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Mr. Tony L. Ferguson
Director of Minerals and Geology Management
U.S. Forest Service

Sen. Greg Lind
State Senator
Montana

Ms. Laura Skaer, 
Executive Director
Northwest Mining Association