Mr. SOUDER. It has been a fascinating presentation. I'm going to start with some questions, here. Mr. Davis, I may or may not have the question directed to the right person, so if somebody wants to jump in go ahead.

In the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Domestic Preparedness Program, $30.5 million was allocated for 120 cities with $300,000 worth of training and equipment to combat terrorist incidents. How did the Department of Defense determine which cities would receive the funding? Did they pick some large population bases that were excluded because not everything is a city anymore? You can have a core city with metro areas a lot bigger. Could you explain to me a little bit of the process and how that was done?

Mr. DAVIS. It's our understanding that the way the cities were selected was by using the 1990 Census. And they simply selected the 120 most populated cities. It was specifically done on a city basis, and not a metropolitan area basis.

Mr. SOUDER. Any logic to that other

Mr. DAVIS. We discussed that with them, and I'll try to explain their logic. They thought that when you have a city, it was important to have somebody that was in charge, that had responsibility that you could go and talk to that had overall control. When you dealt with the Washington, DC metropolitan area, for example, you would have the District of Columbia, you would have northern Virginia, you would have Maryland. The question is, who is in charge? Who do you go to? And, so on-so, that's the rationale that they told us that they wanted to focus on cities rather than metropolitan areas.

Mr. SOUDER. Some of these questions may or may not be answerable, but does it seem to you that some sort of a combination of risk assessment, types of groups that have incidences, and the potential to hit-I think all of us, particularly those of us who are Baby Boomers grew up during the 1960's scare of, "Where was your city ranked?" And some kind of assumption that there would be a logical hit based where certain defense installations were, for example, Huntsville, AL is not very big, but we have a lot of space program things there.

Why isn't that type of thing calculated, or do they just assume that there is enough of that in each big city that it would not make much difference?

Mr. DAVIS. At the present time, in fact, we are doing an assessment of the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Domestic Preparedness Program. We are doing a comprehensive assessment, for this committee, and we are asking some of those questions. We don't have all the answers at this point and time. But, I can tell you in talking to some of the people that we have talked to already, they have suggested that maybe we should have, or that would have been one alternative to look at threat and risk assessment in terms of how we selected the cities that were selected.

Mr. SOUDER. Mr. Johnson, when we were in the Middle East and joined by my colleagues Mr. Barr of Georgia and Mr. Mica of Florida, as well as Mr. Hastert. One of the things that struck me, and I don't want to minimize any threats, and I don't think that you were attempting to do that either, but after we visited Khobar Towers and saw what seemed like a very potential risky situation;