PREDISASTER ASSISTANCE FOR EUCALYPTUS TREES

IN CALIFORNIA

4 - AUG 1 6
Copy 1973

HEARING

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS
UNITED STATES SENATE

NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

S. 1697

TO REQUIRE THE PRESIDENT TO FURNISH PREDISASTER
'ASSISTANCE IN ORDER ΤΟ AVERT OR LESSEN THE
EFFECTS OF A MAJOR DISASTER IN THE COUNTIES OF
ALAMEDA AND CONTRA COSTA IN CALIFORNIA

95-978

MAY 9, 1973

Printed for the use of the Committee on Banking, Housing
and Urban Affairs

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1973

COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS

JOHN SPARKMAN, Alabama, Chairman

Darrell M. Trent, Acting Director, Office of Emergency Preparedness; ac-

companied by Craig C. Chandler, Acting Director, Office of Emergency

Operations of the Forest Service; William Crockett, Assistant Director

for Disaster Programs; Robert Stevens, regional director for California;

and James McAleer, General Counsel___.

Ronald V. Dellums, Representative in Congress from the State of Cali-

fornia

Fortney H. Stark, Representative in Congress from the State of California_

Edwin Meese III, executive assistant to Gov. Ronald Regan_-_

William Hildebrand, chairman of the Inter-Agency Advisory Committee,

Assistant Civil Defense Director, Alameda County, Calif__

Richar C. Trudeau, general manager, East Bay Regional Park District__

Jay ver Lee, director, city of Oakland Park and recreation department__

Mrs. Marge Gibson, vice-chairperson, Citizens Fire Hazard Committee,

Oakland, Calif.

Northcutt Ely, Washington attorney for East Bay Municipal Utilities Dis-

trict

Peter R. Goldschmidt, special assistant to the President, University of

California

ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND DATA

Stewart Udall, former Secretary of Interior, written statement--

Oakland Tribune:

Article, "Peril of the Oakland Hills".

Telegram, to Senator Cranston supporting S. 1697-

Article "Unit Suspends Field Burnings".

Editorial approving 10-point eucalyptus fire-reduction plan-----

Article, "State Won't Cut Trees on Private Property"..

Map, depicting eucalyptus clearances by private owners in concert
with State Ecology Corp, and P.G. & E__.

Editorial, "Letters to the Forum-Volunteer to Cleanup".

Craig C. Chandler, report and statement_

Department of Agriculture, Acting Secretary J. Phil Campbell, letter to

Senator Cranston_.

East Bay Hills, fire hazard evaluation team on freeze damage to euca-

lyptus stands:

Introduction

Bibliography

State of California Office of Emergency Services, Robert L. Vickers, deputy
director, letter to John H. Hastings, deputy State forester, Department
of Conservation__.

Office of Emergency Preparedness:

Title 32-National Defense; Part 1710-Federal Disaster Assistance;
Chapter XVII, as appeared in Federal Register, issues of Jan. 28,
1971, and June 9, 1972, jointly.

Letter from Darrell M. Trent. Acting Director to Senator Cranston.

furnishing informational enclosures on section 221 and summary

of its authority and use_

(III)