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REPUBLICAN MEMBERS:

Young, Donald, AK--Chairman

Hansen, James V., UT
Saxton, H. J., NJ
Gallegly, Elton, CA
Duncan Jr., John J., TN
Hefley, Joel, CO
Doolittle, John T., CA
Allard, Wayne, CO
Roybal-Allard, Lucille, CA
Gilchrest, Wayne T., MD
Calvert, Ken, CA
Pombo, Richard, CA
Torkildsen, Peter G., MA
Hayworth, J.D., AZ
Cremeans, Fred, OH
Cubin, Barbara, WY
Cooley, Wes, OR
Chenoweth, Helen, ID
Smith, Linda, WA
Radanovich, George, CA
Jones Jr., Walter, NC
Thornberry, William, TX
Hastings, Doc, WA
Metcalf, Jack, WA
Longley, James, ME
Shadegg, John, AZ

DEMOCRAT MEMBERS:

Miller, George, CA--Ranking minority member

Rahall II, Nick Joe, WV
Vento, Bruce F., MN
Kildee, Dale E., MI
Williams, Pat, MT
Gejdenson, Samuel, CT
Richardson, William, NM
DeFazio, Peter A., OR
Johnson, Timothy P., SD
Abercrombie, Neil, HI
Studds, Gerry E., MA
Tauzin, W. J., LA
Ortiz, Solomon P., TX
Dooley, Calvin M., CA
Deal, Nathan, GA
Hinchey, Maurice D., NY
Farr, Sam, CA
Faleomavaega, Eni F.H., AS
Underwood, Robert A., GU
Romero-Barcelo, Carlos, PR

DESCRIPTION

The Committee on Natural Resources deals with:

1. Fisheries and wildlife, including research, restoration, refuges, and conservation.
2. Forest reserves and national parks created from the public domain.
3. Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including alien ownership of mineral lands.
4. Geological Survey.
5. International fishing agreements.
6. Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for irrigation purposes.
7. Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for reclamation projects, and easements of public lands for irrigation projects, and acquisition of private lands when necessary to complete irrigation projects.
8. Measures relating to the care and management of Indians, including the care and allotment of Indian lands and general and special measures relating to claims which are paid out of Indian funds.
9. Measures relating generally to the insular possessions of the United States, except those affecting the revenue and appropriations.
10. Military parks and battlefields, national cemeteries administered by the Secretary of the Interior, parks within the District of Columbia, and the erection of monuments to the memory of individuals.
11. Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder.
12. Mineral resources of the public lands.
13. Mining interests generally.
14. Mining schools and experimental stations.
15. Marine affairs (including coastal zone management), except for measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters.
16. Oceanography.
17. Petroleum conservation on the public lands and conservation of the radium supply in the United States.
18. Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the public domain.
19. Public lands generally, including entry, easements, and grazing thereon.
20. Relations of the United States with the Indians and the Indian tribes.
21. Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline (except ratemaking). In addition to its legislative jurisdiction under the preceding provisions of this paragraph (and its general oversight function under clause 2(b)(1)), the committee shall have the special oversight functions provided for in clause 3(e) with respect to all programs affecting Indians.

SUBCOMMITTEES

ENERGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES
FISHERIES, WILDLIFE AND OCEANS
NATIONAL PARKS, FORESTS AND LANDS
NATIVE AMERICAN AND INSULAR AFFAIRS
WATER AND POWER RESOURCES