NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
                           MORNING REPORT
  
  
  To:         All National Park Service Areas and Offices
  
  From:       Division of Ranger Activities, Washington Office
  
  Day/Date:   Tuesday, February 8, 2000
  
  ALMANAC
  
  On this date in 1820, General William Tecumseh Sherman, best 
  remembered for his march through Georgia during the Civil War, was 
  born in Lancaster, Ohio.  He is commemorated by an equestrian statue 
  near the White House in National Capital Parks, Washington, DC.
  
  INCIDENTS
  
  00-035 - Biscayne NP (FL) - Illegal Immigrants
  
  On February 3rd, the Coast Guard asked the park to intercept three 
  immigrants from Cuba as they entered park waters near Pacific Reef in 
  a small, wooden, diesel and sail-powered boat. Rangers Didier Carod 
  and David Pharo stopped the boat, and were briefly involved in a 
  rescue when all three jumped overboard. They were rescued, brought 
  aboard the park patrol vessel, then transported to a waiting 110-foot 
  Coast Guard cutter in international waters nine miles off shore, where 
  they were interviewed by INS authorities. The three Cubans said that 
  they'd been at sea for five days; one reported that this was his fifth 
  attempt to leave Cuba by boat and the fifth time he'd been caught. 
  [Wayne Elliott, CR, BISC, 2/6]
  
  CULTURAL/NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
  
  No submissions.
  
  OPERATIONAL NOTES
  
  No submissions.
  
  MEMORANDA
  
  No submissions.
  
  PARKS AND PEOPLE
  
  Point Reyes NS - The park is looking for a term cultural landscape 
  architect to prepare a cultural landscape report and assist in 
  developing management policies and guidelines for the Ranches Historic 
  District. This is a great opportunity to work on a broad, complex 
  project and an array of issues in addition to cultural landscape 
  protection issues, including range and ranch management, threatened 
  and endangered flora and fauna, native plant restoration, fire 
  management, and interpretation. The announcement can be found on USA 
  Jobs at www.usajobs.opm.gov/wfjic/jobs/II5821.htm and closes on 
  February 23rd.  For more information, call Gordon White at 
  416-663-8522 x 299.
  
  UPCOMING IN CONGRESS
  
  The following activities will be taking place in Congress during 
  coming weeks on matters pertaining to the National Park Service or 
  kindred agencies.  For inquiries regarding legislation pertaining to 
  the NPS, please contact the main office at 202-208-5883/5656 and ask 
  to be forwarded to the appropriate legislative specialist.
  
  HEARINGS/MARK-UPS
  
  Thursday, February 10th
  
  House Resources Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands 
  (Hansen): Oversight hearings on proposed concession regulations. The 
  hearing will be at 10 a.m. in Longworth 1324.
  
  Thursday, February 17th
  
  House Resources Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands 
  (Hansen): Mark-up of:
  
  o     H.R. 1509 (Johnson, TX), a bill to authorize the Disabled 
        Veterans' LIFE Memorial Foundation to establish a memorial in 
        the District of Columbia or its environs to honor veterans who 
        became disabled while serving in the Armed Forces of the United 
        States. 
  o     H.R. 1864 (Hansen, UT), a bill to standardize the process for 
        conducting public hearings for Federal agencies within the 
        Department of the Interior. 
  o     H.R. 2932 (Hansen, UT), a bill to authorize the Golden 
        Spike/Crossroads of the West National Heritage Area.      
  
  The hearing will be at 10 a.m. in Longworth 1324.
  
  Tuesday, February 29th
  
  House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior (Regula): Hearing on DOI 
  FY 2001 budget request. The hearing will be at 10 a.m. in Rayburn 
  B-308.
  
  Thursday, March 2nd
  
  Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee (Murkowski): Oversight 
  hearing on DOI FY 2001 budget request (tentative).
  
  Wednesday, March 29th
  
  House Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior (Regula): Hearing on NPS 
  FY 2001 budget request. The hearing will be at 10 a.m. in Rayburn 
  B-308.
  
  LEGISLATION INTRODUCED
  
  The following bills either directly or indirectly pertaining to the 
  NPS have been introduced since the last Morning Report listing of new 
  legislation (November 9th):
  
  o     H.R. 3556 (Castle, DE), a bill to designate segments and 
        tributaries of White Clay Creek, Delaware and Pennsylvania, as a 
        component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System.
  o     S. 2020 (Cochran, MS), a bill to adjust the boundary of the 
        Natchez Trace Parkway, and for other purposes.
     
  NEW LAWS
  
  The following bills have passed Congress and been signed into law: No 
  new laws.
  
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  Prepared by the Division of Ranger Activities, WASO, with the 
  cooperation and support of Delaware Water Gap NRA.
  
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