SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL PARKS, FORESTS AND PUBLIC LANDS
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Thursday, July 26, 2007
10:00 a.m.

LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON:

• H.R. 3058 (DeFazio): To amend chapter 69 of title 31, United States Code, to provide full payments under such chapter to units of general local governments in which entitlement land is located, to provide transitional payments during fiscal years 2008 through 2012 to those States and counties previously entitled to payments under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, and for other purposes. "Public Land Communities Transition Assistance Act of 2007"

WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:

Panel I

Mark Rey
Undersecretary
Natural Resources and Environment
Department of Agriculture

Julie Jacobson
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Lands and Minerals Management
Department of the Interior

Panel II

Elizabeth C. Archuleta
Supervisor
Coconino County, Arizona

Jim French
Superintendent of Schools
Trinity County, CA