The House Natural Resources Committee, Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, led by Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), will hold a legislative hearing on the following bills:

• H.R. 783 (Salazar): To modify the boundary of Mesa Verde National Park, and for other purposes. (Mesa Verde National Park Boundary Expansion Act of 2007)
• H.R. 1266 (Boozman): To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a resource study along the ‘Ox-Bow Route' of the Butterfield Overland Trail in the states of Missouri, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California, and for other purposes. (Butterfield Overland Trail Study Act)
• H.R. 1674 (Spratt): To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to study the suitability and feasibility of designating the site of the Battle of Camden in South Carolina, as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes. (Battle of Camden Study Act)

Subject:
House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands
Legislative Hearing on H.R. 783, H.R. 1266 and H.R. 1674

When:
Thursday, July 19, 2007, at 10:00 a.m.

Where:
Room 1334 Longworth House Office Building

Witnesses:
Panel 1
The Honorable John M. Spratt Jr. (SC-05) (H.R. 1674)
The Honorable John Boozman (AR-03) (H.R. 1266)
The Honorable John T. Salazar (CO-03) (H.R. 783)

Panel 2
Mr. Bill Shaddox, Acting Associate Director for Park Planning, Facilities and Lands, National Park Service

Panel 3
Mr. Daniel G. Sakura (H.R. 783), Director of Real Estate, The Conservation Fund
Ms. Marilyn Heifner (H.R. 1266), Heritage Trail Partners
Mr. George Fields (H.R. 1674), Military Heritage Program Director, Palmetto Conservation Fund
Ms. Joanna Craig (H.R. 1674), Historic Camden Revolutionary War Site