Jeff Bingaman: “I would like to announce for the information of the Senate and the public that a hearing has been scheduled before the…”

“I would like to announce for the information of the Senate and the public that a hearing has been scheduled before the Subcommittee on National Parks. The hearing will be held on Wednesday, May 11, 2011, at 2:30 p.m. in room SD-366 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The purpose of the hearing is to receive testimony on the following bills: S. 114, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to enter into a cooperative agreement for a park headquarters at San Antonio Missions National Historical Park, to expand the boundary of the Park, to conduct a study of potential land acquisitions, and for other purposes; S. 127, to establish the Buffalo Bayou National Heritage Area in the State of Texas, and for other purposes; S. 140, to designate as wilderness certain land and inland water within the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore in the State of Michigan, and for other purposes; S. 161, to establish Pinnacles National Park in the State of California as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes; S. 177, to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to acquire the Gold Hill Ranch in Coloma, California; S. 247, to establish the Harriet Tubman National Historical Park in Auburn, New York, and the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park in Caroline, Dorchester, and Talbot Counties, Maryland, and for other purposes; S.…”