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COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
UNITED STATES SENATE

ONE HUNDRED SIXTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS IN THE NEXT MILLENNIUM

APRIL 20, 1999

Serial No. J-106-18

Printed for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 2000

For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office

Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402

ISBN 0-16-060422-2

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CONTENTS

STATEMENTS OF COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Sessions, Hon. Jeff, U.S. Senator from the State of Alabama
Feinstein, Hon. Dianne, U.S Senator from the State of California
Kyl, Hon. Jon, U.S. Senator from the State of Arizona

CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF WITNESSES

Panel consisting of Barbara Y. Martinez, deputy director, National Domestic

Preparedness Office, U.S. Department of Justice; James M. Hughes, direc-

tor, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention, Department of Health and Human Services; Charles L.

Cragin, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs, Depart-

ment of Defense; and Andy Mitchell, deputy director, Office for State and

Local Domestic Preparedness Support, Office of Justice Programs, U.S.

Department of Justice

Panel consisting of Richard Dyer, fire chief of Lee's Summit, MO, and presi-

dent, National Association of Fire Chiefs; Patrick J. Sullivan, Jr., sheriff

of Arapahoe County, CO, and chairman, Subcommittee on Domestic Pre-

paredness and Domestic Terrorism, National Sheriffs' Association; and

Richard L. Alcorta, State Emergency Medical Services Director for the

Maryland Institute for Emergency Medical Services Systems, on behalf

of the College of Emergency Physicians, and Joseph F. Waeckerle, chair-

man, Weapons of Mass Destruction Task Force Subcommittee, American

College of Emergency Physicians