The joint investigation panel of the US Coast Guard-Bureau of Ocean Energy Management will hold a sixth round of hearings Dec. 7-9 in Houston

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A spokesman for the panel said the time and location will be announced at a later date. On Oct. 22, the joint panel reported it had been given an extension of the deadline for its final report. The panel’s original deadline was Jan. 27, 2011. The panel will now have until Mar. 27, 2011, to submit its final report. The spokesman said the December hearings will look at new evidence coming from the just started examination of the Macondo well’s blowout preventer.