SUBCOMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES
1310 Longworth House Office Building
Friday, February 17, 2012
9:00 a.m.

• Official hearing transcript

LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON:

• H.R. 785 (Pearce), To amend the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 to clarify that uncertified States and Indian tribes have the authority to use certain payments for certain noncoal reclamation projects.

WITNESSES AND TESTIMONY:

Panel I

Representative Stevan Pearce (NM-02)
Member of Congress

Representative Ben Ray Luján (NM-03)
Member of Congress

Panel II

Al Whitehouse
Chief of the Division of Reclamation Support
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

Panel III

Governor Richard Luarkie
Pueblo of Laguna

Gregory E. Conrad
Executive Director
Interstate Mining Compact Commission

Fred H. White
Director of the Division of Natural Resources
Navajo Nation

Lauren Pagel
Policy Director
Earthworks
(Truth in Testimony Form)

STATEMENT FOR THE RECORD:

Jon J. Indall and Adela M. Duran
Counsel
Uranium Producers of New Mexico

Governor Randall Vicente
Pueblo of Acoma

Secretary John Bemis
Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department
State of New Mexico