Subcommittee Hearing: Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Legislative Hearing

Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 Time: 02:00 PM

WHAT: Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources Legislative Hearing on:

  • H.R. 5066 (Benishek), To reauthorize the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program Act of 2005 through 2019.  “Data Preservation Act of 2014.”
  • H.R. 5176 (Lujan), To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to retire coal preference right lease applications for which the Secretary has made an affirmative commercial quantities determination, and for other purposes.

WHERE: 1324 Longworth House Office Building, US Capitol Complex, Washington DC
WHEN: 2:00PM, Wednesday, September 17, 2014

WITNESSES:

Johnathan D. Arthur, Ph.D., P.G. (H.R. 5066)
President, Association of American State Geologists
Director and State Geologist of Florida

Patrick J. Gooding (H.R. 5066)
Kentucky Geological Survey
University of Kentucky, Well Sample and Core Library

Theodore A. Pagano, P.G., P.E. (H.R. 5066)
General Manager
Michigan Potash Company, LLC

Walter Phelps (H.R. 5176)
Council Delegate
Navajo Nation

The Honorable Michael Nedd (H.R. 5176)
Assistant Director, Energy, Minerals, and Realty Management
Bureau of Land Management
U.S. Department of the Interior

Accompanied by:
Kevin Gallagher (H.R. 5066)
Associate Director of Core Science Systems
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Department of the Interior