SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARKS, FORESTS AND PUBLIC LANDS
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Thursday, July 19, 2010
10:00 a.m.

LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON:

• H.R. 783 (Salazar): To modify the boundary of Mesa Verde National Park, and for other purposes. "Mesa Verde National Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2007"
• H.R. 1266 (Boozman): To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a resource study along the ‘Ox-Bow Route' of the Butterfield Overland Trail in the states of Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, and for other purposes. "Butterfield Overland Trail Study Act"
• H.R. 1674 (Spratt): To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the site of the Battle of Camden in South Carolina, as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes. "Battle of Camden Study Act"

WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:

Panel I

The Honorable John M. Spratt Jr. (SC-05) 

The Honorable John Boozman (AR-03)  

The Honorable John T. Salazar (CO-03)

Panel II

Mr. Bill Shaddox
Acting Associate Director for Park Planning, Facilities and Lands
National Park Service

Panel III

Mr. Daniel G. Sakura
Director of Real Estate
The Conservation Fund 

Ms. Marilyn Heifner
Heritage Trail Partners

Mr. George Fields
Military Heritage Program Director
Palmetto Conservation Fund 

Ms. Joanna Craig
Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site