Mr. President, 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, June 27, 2012, at 3 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. 1897, a bill to amend Public Law 101 377 to revise the boundaries of the Gettysburg National Military Park to include the Gettysburg Train Station; S. 2158, a bill to establish the Fox-Wisconsin Heritage Parkway National Heritage Area; S. 2229, a bill to authorize the issuance of right-of-way permits for natural gas pipelines in Glacier National Park; S. 2267, a bill to reauthorize the Hudson Valley National Heritage Area; S. 2272, a bill to designate a mountain in the State of Alaska as Mount Denali; S. 2273, a bill to designate the Talkeetna Ranger Station in Talkeetna, Alaska, as the Walter Harper Talkeetna Ranger Station; S. 2286, a bill to amend the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act to designate certain segments of the Farmington River and Salmon Brook in the State of Connecticut as components of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System; S. 2316, a bill to designate the Salt Pond Visitor Center at the Cape Cod National Seashore as the ``Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Salt Pond Visitor Center''; S.…
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