Legislative Hearing on:
H.R. 3480, To promote Department of the Interior efforts to provide a scientific basis for the management of sediment and nutrient loss in the Upper Mississippi River Basin.
H.R. 3606, To authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to participate in the rehabilitation of the Wallowa Lake Dam in Oregon, and for other purposes.

WITNESSES

Panel I

John W. Keyes, III, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of the Interior

Dr. Robert M. Hirsch, Associate Director for Water, U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Department of the Interior

Panel II

Part I – H.R. 3606

Morton McMillen, MWH

Part II – H.R. 3480

Jerald L. Schnoor, Ph.D., P.E., DEE, Professor, Civil & Environmental Engineering, Co-Director, Center for Global and Regional Environmental Research, The University of Iowa

Doug Daigle, Hypoxia Program Director, Mississippi River Basin Alliance

Holly Stoerker, Executive Director, Upper Mississippi River Basin Association

John A. McLachlan, Ph.D., Weatherhead Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies, Professor of Pharmacology, Director, Center for Bioenvironmental Research, Tulane and Xavier Universities