SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES
AND
SUBCOMMITTEE ON WATER AND POWER
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Thursday, November 5, 2009
10:00 a.m.

• Opening Statement by Full Committee Ranking Member Doc Hastings
• Opening Statement by Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Ranking Member Doug Lamborn
• Opening Statement by Subcommittee on Water and Power Ranking Member Tom McClintock
• Archived hearing webcast 

• "Getting Past Gridlock: Models for Renewable Energy Siting and Transmission"

WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:

Panel I

Marcilynn Burke
Deputy Director, Bureau of Land Management
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.

Accompanied by: 
Mr. Ray Brady
Renewable Energy Program Manager, Bureau of Land Management
Department of the Interior
Washington, D.C.

Patricia Hoffman
Acting Assistant Secretary, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability
Department of Energy
Washington, D.C.

Panel II

The Honorable Dian Grueneich
Commissioner
California Public Utilities Commission
San Francisco, California 

Rich W. Halvey
Energy Program Director
Western Governors’ Association
Denver, Colorado

Tom Wray
Manager, SunZia Southwest Transmission Project
Southwestern Power Group
Phoenix, Arizona

Carl Zichella
Director, Western Renewable Programs
Sierra Club
San Francisco, California

A. Richard Walje
President, Rocky Mountain Power
PacifiCorp
Salt Lake City, Utah

Jim Sims
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Western Business Roundtable
Lakewood, Colorado