COMMITTEE ON UNITED STATES SENATE NINETY-THIRD CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON S. 1697 TO REQUIRE THE PRESIDENT TO FURNISH PREDISASTER ALAMEDA AND CONTRA COSTA IN CALIFORNIA MAY 9, 1973 Printed for the use of the Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON : 1978 95-978 COMMITTEE ON BANKING, HOUSING AND URBAN AFFAIRS JOHN SPARKMAN, Alabama, Chairman JOHN TOWER, Texas BOB PACKWOOD, Oregon BILL BROCK, Tennessee J. BENNETT JOHNSTON, JR., Louisiana ROBERT TAFT, JR., Ohio LIAM D. HATHAWAY, Maine · LOWELL P. WEICKER, JR., ecticut JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR., Delaware DUDLEY L. O'NEAL, Jr., Staff Director and General Counsel MICHAEL E. BURNS, Minority Counsel SUBCOMMITTEE ON SMALL BUSINESS ALAN CRANSTON, California, Chairman LOWELL P. WEICKER, JR., Connecticut LIST OF WITNESSES 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- Fortney H. Stark, Representative in Congress from the State of California. 40 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-- 62 Jay ver Lee, director, city of Oakland Park and recreation department.- 78 Mrs. Marge Gibson, vice-chairperson, Citizens Fire Hazard Committee, Northcutt Ely, Washington attorney for East Bay Municipal Utilities Dis- 105 Peter R. Goldschmidt, special assistant to the President, University of ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS AND DATA Stewart Udall, former Secretary of Interior, written statement... 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 East Bay Hills, fire hazard evaluation team on freeze damage to euca- 21 28 director, letter to John H. Hastings, deputy State forester, Department 29 Office of Emergency Preparedness : Title 32-National Defense; Part 1710-Federal Disaster Assistance ; Chapter XVII, as appeared in Federal Register, issues of Jan. 28, 48 Letter from Darrell M. Trent, Acting Director to Senator Cranston, furnishing informational enclosures on section 221 and summary 47, 56 (III) |