Congressional Field Hearings on Abandoned Mines and Mercury Announced

WASHINGON DC, 9 November 2009 – The House Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources has scheduled an oversight field hearing on “Abandoned Mines and Mercury in California.”  The hearing is scheduled for Monday, November 23, 2009 at 10 a.m., at the State Capitol, Room 4204, in Sacramento, California.

The hearing will be convened by Congressman Jim Costa, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources.  Witnesses will be by invitation only.

For further information, call Wendy VanAsselt, Legislative Staff for the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, or Marcie Cooperman, Clerk of the Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources, at (202) 225-9297.