COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM

DAN BURTON, Indiana, Chairman

EX OFFICIO

HENRY A. WAXMAN, California

RUSSELL SMITH, Staff Director
HOWARD DENNIS, Professional Staff Member
MATTHEW BATT, Clerk
JON BOUKER, Minority Counsel

CONTENTS

Hearing held on July 27, 2001

Statement of:

Ladner, Benjamin, president, American University; Lewis D. Walker,

former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, Environment, Safety,

and Occupational Health; Francis E. Reardon, Auditor General of the

Army, U.S. Army Audit Agency, accompanied by Stephen Kiefer, Dep-

uty Auditor General, U.S. Army Audit Agency; Raymond J. Fatz, Dep-

uty Assistant Secretary, Army, Environment, Safety and Occupational

Health, accompanied by Colonel Charles J. Fiala, Army Corps of Engi-

neers

Walks, Ivan C.A., M.D., chief health officer of the District of Columbia,

accompanied by Theodore J. Gordon, chief operating officer, D.C. De-

partment of Health; and Dr. Richard D. Albright, JD, MS, environ-

mental specialist/ordnance & chemical weapons expert, D.C. Depart-

ment of Ĥealth; Dr. Bailus Walker, Jr., chairman, District of Columbia

Mayor's Spring Valley Scientific Advisory Panel; Sarah Stowell

Shapley, co-chair, Spring Valley Restoration Advisory Board; William

C. Harrop, president, Spring Valley-Wesley Heights Citizens Associa-

tion; and Edward J. Miller, Jr., president, W.C. and A.N. Miller Devel-

opment Co.

Williams, Rear Admiral Robert, Director, Division of Health Assessment

and Consultation, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry;

and Thomas C. Voltaggio, Acting Regional Administrator, Environ-

mental Protection Agency Region III

Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by:

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Davis, Hon. Thomas M., a Representative in Congress from the State
of Virginia, prepared statement of

306

Fatz, Raymond J., Deputy Assistant Secretary, Army, Environment, Safe-

ty and Occupational Health, prepared statement of

251

Fiala, Colonel Charles J., Army Corps of Engineers:

Letter dated August 22, 2001

298

Prepared statement of.

260

Harrop, William C., president, Spring Valley-Wesley Heights Citizens

Association, prepared statement of

34

Ladner, Benjamin, president, American University, prepared statement

of

133

Miller, Edward J., Jr., president, W.C. and A.N. Miller Development

Co., prepared statement of....

38

Morella, Hon. Constance A., a Representative in Congress from the State

of Maryland, prepared statement of

4

Norton, Hon. Eleanor Holmes, a Representative in Congress from the

District of Columbia:

List of addresses

302

Prepared statement of

8

Reardon, Francis E., Auditor General of the Army, U.S. Army Audit

Agency, prepared statement of

230

Shapley, Sarah Stowell, co-chair, Spring Valley Restoration Advisory

Board, prepared statement of

29

Voltaggio, Thomas C., Acting Regional Administrator, Environmental
Protection Agency Region III, prepared statement of ....

118

Walker, Dr. Bailus, Jr., chairman, District of Columbia Mayor's Spring
Valley Scientific Advisory Panel, prepared statement of
Walker, Lewis D., former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, Envi-
ronment, Safety, and Occupational Health, prepared statement of

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(III)

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Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by-Continued

Walks, Ivan C.A., M.D., chief health officer of the District of Columbia,

prepared statement of

78

Williams, Rear Admiral Robert, Director, Division of Health Assessment and Consultation, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, prepared statement of

112