Oversight Hearing on "Federal Impediments to Water Rights, Job Creation and Recreation: A Local Perspective"
Thursday, April 25, 2013 10:00 AM Subcommittee on Water and Power
1334 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515
Oversight Hearing on:
"Federal Impediments to Water Rights, Job Creation and Recreation: A Local Perspective"
Reed D. Benson
Keleher & McLeod Professor
Chair, Natural Resources Committee
University of New Mexico School of Law
Albuquerque, New Mexico
(Truth in Testimony Form)
The hearing will focus on federal laws and recent Obama Administration actions, like the Blueways Order, designed to undermine state water law and locally-driven watershed protections and recreation. The hearing will examine growing federal intrusion that costs American jobs and threatens to divert water supplies away from agricultural, recreational, and municipal water use.
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