It is vital that livestock grazing continue to be incorporated into any future management plans for educational and scientific research.

Turning the Preserve over to the NPS will not demonstrate nor has it been shown, that the NPS is a superior alternative.

Our Pueblo has a working relationship with the Bandelier National Monument, located nearby.

We support S.3452 as a means of resolving immediate funding problems for the Valles Caldera National Preserve.

We cannot predict what policies the National Park Service may adopt governing grazing, hunting and fishing in the Valles Caldera.

Santa Clara strongly supports section 3, subsection (i), which requires the Secretary to ensure the protection of traditional cultural sites and which grant Santa Clara rights of access to those sites.

The purpose of the afternoon hearing is to receive testimony on S. 3452.

I do support what you are suggesting, and we have talked about that with the superintendent as of this past Monday.

This is legislation that I introduced, along with Senator Udall as cosponsor, to transfer administrative jurisdiction over the Valles Caldera National Preserve.

I urge Congress to pass S. 3452.

We are here to conditionally support Senator Jeff Bingaman's bill to transfer management of the Valles Caldera National Preserve to the National Park Service.

As a matter of fact, we have a management agreement called the Valles Caldera Protection Act which somewhat protects the cultural and the forest resources that we have.

We strongly support your effort to enact new legislation that assigns management of the preserve to the National Park Service.

I hope that you move forward in that other area as aggressively as you can, because I don't really see much hope that Congress is going to act aggressively on this.

I think that also speaks to the importance of the legislation I have introduced, which would give us more research.

It stunned me that the emergency response plan, as I understand it, didn't include plans for the blowout preventer to fail...

It is time for us to get to work again on pipeline safety.

Thank you, Chairman Lautenberg, and thank you to the panelists.