SENATE
                         NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING


COMMITTEE: Natural Resources
SUBCOMMITTEE: Human Health Impacts of the Oyster Indus

TIME & DATE:  1:30PM, Tuesday, November 24, 1998

PLACE: Houston, Texas

CHAIR: Senator J.E. "Buster" Brown

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The Senate natural Resources Subcommittee on Human Health Impacts of the
Oyster Industry and the House Committee on State Recreational Resources
will hold a joint hearing at the University of Houston Clear Lake Campus,
2700 Bay Area Boulevard, in Houston Texas to discuss the following:

I.    Call to order
II.   Invited testimony - Criteria for opening and closing of the bays for
      oyster harvesting
III.  Public testimony
IV.   Recess

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