SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISHERIES, WILDLIFE AND OCEANS
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
10:00 a.m.
LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON:
- H.R. 1187 (Woolsey): To expand the boundaries of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary. (Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuaries Boundary Modification and Protection Act)
- H.R. 1907 (Saxton): To authorize the acquisition of land and interests in land from willing sellers to improve the conservation of, and to enhance the ecological values and functions of, coastal and estuarine areas to benefit both the environment and the economies of coastal communities, and for other purposes. (Coastal and Estuarine Land Protection Act)
- H.R. 3352 (Young): To reauthorize and amend the Hydrographic Services Improvement Act, and for other purposes. (Hydrographic Services Improvement Act Amendments of 2007)
WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:
Panel I
The Honorable Lynn C. Woolsey, (CA-6)
The Honorable Mike Thompson, (CA-1)
Panel II
Jack Dunnigan
Assistant Administrator for Ocean Services and Coastal Zone Management
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
United States Department of Commerce
Ted Diers
Vice Chair
Executive Committee Coastal States Organization
J. Scott Rainey
Chairman
Hydrographic Services Review Panel
Panel III
Susan Willams
Director
Bodega Marine Laboratory
Alan Front
Senior Vice President
The Trust for Public Lands
Marvin Miller
President
Management Association for Private
Photogrammetric Surveyors
Aero-Metric Incorporated
Kathy Fosmark
Co-Chair
Alliance of Communities for Sustainable Fisheries
