U.S. House Committee Announces Second Oversight Hearing on the National Ocean Policy
The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources announced today that it will hold a second oversight hearing on Wednesday, October 26, 2011 to address “The President’s New National Ocean Policy – A Plan for Further Restrictions on Ocean, Coastal and Inland Activities.”
According to the announcement, the hearing “will feature testimony from Administration officials and impacted industries on President Obama’s Executive Order 13547 that established a new National Ocean Policy and Council that could severely restrict the recreational and commercial uses of our oceans.” Confirmed witnesses include the Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality and National Ocean Council Co-Chair and the Undersecretary of Commerce for Oceans & Atmosphere and Administrator of the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration.
