CONTENTS

Text of-

H.R. 14328_

H.R. 14367_

S. 3542

Witnesses-

Church, Hon. Frank, a Senator from the State of Idaho...

Prepared statement---

Dunne, Hon. Thomas P., Administrator, Federal Disaster Assistance

Administration

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Gude, Hon. Gilbert, a Representative from the State of Maryland__ 26

Hansen, Hon. George, a Representative from the State of Idaho_---

Prepared statement..

Jaffe, Hon. Irving, Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division,

Department of Justice__

Prepared statement_

McClure, Hon. James A., a Senator from the State of Idaho_-

Prepared statement__

McDonnell, John, Deputy Associate Solicitor, Department of the

Interior

Stamm, Gilbert G., Commissioner of Reclamation, Department of the

Interior

Symms, Hon. Steve, a Representative from the State of Idaho_-_.

Prepared statement..

Tidwell, Moody R., III, Associate Solicitor for the Department of the

Interior

Prepared statement_

Additional statements-

American Insurance Association__.

American Mutual Insurance Alliance and the National Association of

Independent Insurers..

Blackwelder, Brent, Washington representative, Environmental Policy

Center

Pommerance, Rafe, associate legislative director, Friends of the Earth_

Stern, Gerald M..

Correspondence-

Andrus, Hon. Cecil D., Governor, State of Idaho, letter dated June 29,

1976, to Hon. Walter Flowers----

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Farm Bureau Mutual Insurance Co., telegram dated June 30, 1976,

to Hon. Walter Flowers_____.

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Appendix-

"Children of Disaster: Clinical Observations at Buffalo Creek," by C.

Janet Newman__.

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"Discussion of the Buffalo Creek Disaster: the Course of Psychic

Trauma," by Leo Rangell___.

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"Family and Character Change at Buffalo Creek," from the American
Journal of Psychiatry, March 1976___

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"From Chaos to Responsibility," by Gerald M. Stern_.

"Loss of Communality at Buffalo Creek," by Kai T. Erikson___.

"The Human Meaning of Total Disaster—the Buffalo Creek Experi-

ence," Psychiatry Magazine, February 1976.

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