ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES
UNITED STATES SENATE

ONE HUNDRED FOURTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 620

TO DIRECT THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR TO CONVEY, UPON RE-
QUEST, CERTAIN PROPERTY IN FEDERAL RECLAMATION PROJECTS
TO BENEFICIARIES OF THE PROJECTS AND TO SET FORTH A DIS-
TRIBUTION SCHEME FOR REVENUES FROM RECLAMATION PROJECT
LANDS

91-970 CC

MAY 23, 1995

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1995

FRANK H. MURKOWSKI and J. BENNETT JOHNSTON are Ex Officio Members of the

JIM BIERNE, Senior Counsel

CRAIG GANNETT, Senior Counsel (Minority)

CONTENTS

STATEMENTS

Beard, Daniel P., Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the

Interior

Bradley, Hon. Bill, U.S. Senator from New Jersey

Burns, Hon. Conrad, U.S. Senator from Montana

Craig, Hon. Larry E., U.S. Senator from Idaho

Davis, Tom W., manager, Carlsbad Irrigation District

Domenici, Hon. Pete V., U.S. Senator from New Mexico

Donnelly, Thomas F., executive vice president, National Water Resources

Association, accompanied by John Sayre and James Ziglar

Esslinger, Gary, manager, Elephant Butte Irrigation District, Las Cruces,

NM

Hernandez, Steve, counsel for Elephant Butte Irrigation District and Carls-

bad Irrigation District

Kyl, Hon. Jon, U.S. Senator from Arizona

Ling, Roger, attorney, Rupert, ID

Nelson, Kenneth, chairman, Irrigation Project Reauthorization Council of

Kansas and Nebraska

Thomas, Hon. Craig, U.S. Senator from Wyoming

APPENDIX

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