SUBCOMMITTEE ON WATER AND POWER
1334 Longworth House Office Building
Thursday, May 8, 2008
10:00 a.m.
LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON:
- H.R. 155 (Herseth Sandlin): To provide compensation to the Lower Brule and Crow Creek Sioux Tribes of South Dakota for damage to tribal land caused by Pick-Sloan projects along the Missouri River. "Lower Brule and Crow Creek Tribal Compensation Act”
- H.R. 5511 (Lamborn): To direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of Reclamation, to remedy problems caused by a collapsed drainage tunnel in Leadville, Colorado, and for other purposes “Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel Remediation Act of 2008”
- H.R. 5710 (T. Udall): To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to provide financial assistance to the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority for the planning, design, and construction of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System, and for other purposes “Eastern New Mexico Rural Water System Authorization Act”
WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY:
Panel I
Robert Quint
Director of Operations
Bureau of Reclamation,
Washington, D.C.
*Accompanied by Elizabeth Southerland, Director of the Assessment and Remediation Division, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington , D.C., to answer questions regarding H.R. 5511.
The Honorable Michael Jandreau
Chairman
Lower Brule Sioux Tribe
Lower Brule, South Dakota
Martha Rudolph
Director for Environmental Programs
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
Denver, CO
The Honorable Mike Hickman
Chairman
Lake County Commissioners
Leadville, CO
David M. Lansford
Chairman of the Eastern New Mexico Rural Water Authority
Former Mayor
Clovis, New Mexico
