Preparedness Against Terrorist Attacks: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and Emergency Management of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, June 9, 1999U.S. Government Printing Office, 2000 - 127 pages |
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... TILLIE K. FOWLER , Florida , Chairman 00-329273 KF27 · P89637 1999 Copy 2 LL CONTENTS TESTIMONY Page. DON YOUNG , Alaska THOMAS E. PETRI , Wisconsin SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT , New York HERBERT H. BATEMAN , Virginia HOWARD COBLE , North ...
... TILLIE K. FOWLER , Florida , Chairman 00-329273 KF27 · P89637 1999 Copy 2 LL CONTENTS TESTIMONY Page. DON YOUNG , Alaska THOMAS E. PETRI , Wisconsin SHERWOOD L. BOEHLERT , New York HERBERT H. BATEMAN , Virginia HOWARD COBLE , North ...
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... Tillie K. Fowler [ chair- woman of the subcommittee ] presiding . Mrs. FOWLER . Would the meeting please come to order . I want to thank all of you for being here this afternoon and we are going to have an interesting hearing . Today ...
... Tillie K. Fowler [ chair- woman of the subcommittee ] presiding . Mrs. FOWLER . Would the meeting please come to order . I want to thank all of you for being here this afternoon and we are going to have an interesting hearing . Today ...
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... Tillie K. Fowler Chairman Subcommittee on Oversight , Investigations and Emergency Management Washington , DC 20515-6143 Dear Chairman Fowler : Thank you for your recent letter with questions related to the issues discussed during the ...
... Tillie K. Fowler Chairman Subcommittee on Oversight , Investigations and Emergency Management Washington , DC 20515-6143 Dear Chairman Fowler : Thank you for your recent letter with questions related to the issues discussed during the ...
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... Tillie K. Fowler Chairwoman , Subcommittee on Oversight , Investigations , and Emergency Management Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives Washington , D.C. 20515 Dear Madam Chairwoman : I am writing in ...
... Tillie K. Fowler Chairwoman , Subcommittee on Oversight , Investigations , and Emergency Management Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure House of Representatives Washington , D.C. 20515 Dear Madam Chairwoman : I am writing in ...
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Page 57 - Department of Agriculture Department of Commerce Department of Defense Department of Energy...
Page 64 - Naughty Oklahoma T-Shirts." The posting described the sale of shirts featuring offensive and tasteless slogans related to the April 19, 1995, bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Those interested in purchasing the shirts were instructed to call "Ken" at Zeran's home phone number in Seattle.
Page 50 - Council, the office of the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and Counter-Terrorism to oversee these efforts.
Page 80 - Consequence management is predominantly an emergency management function and includes measures to protect public health and safety, restore essential government services, and provide emergency relief to governments, businesses, and individuals affected by the consequences of terrorism.
Page 55 - Extensive training will include teaching and course work provided by the Army Chemical School, the Defense Nuclear Weapons School, the Army Medical Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Fire Academy, the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, FEMA, and the Department of Justice's Center for Domestic Preparedness. The Role of the National Guard and Reserve in Domestic Emergency Preparedness One effective means of channeling federal support to first responders...
Page 36 - FYOO, will train and equip 43 Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical reconnaissance elements and 127 decontamination elements in the Army Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Army National Guard and Air National Guard, enabling them to more effectively respond to a WMD attack. In addition, and at the direction of Congress, the Department is working to establish 44 military support detachments, which we refer to as RAID (Light) teams. These teams are being established as part of our overall effort to develop a...
Page 86 - Agency, to make grants to provide specialized training and equipment to enhance the capability of metropolitan fire and emergency service departments to respond to terrorist attacks.
Page 82 - July of this year. The NFA is utilizing the Training Resources and Data Exchange (TRADE) program to reach all 50 States and all major metropolitan fire and rescue departments with training materials and course offerings. To date, over 46,000 fire and emergency response personnel have received ERT training. In addition, FEMA is using the Emergency Management Institute (EMI) to develop and deliver courses such as the Integrated Emergency Management Course on Terrorism that uses a terrorist attack scenario.
Page 82 - In particular, we arc using the National Emergency Training Center, which includes the National Fire Academy and the Emergency Management Institute, as well as State fire and emergency management training systems to deliver terrorism-related training to State and local responders. FEMA continues to emphasize the "train-the-trainer...
Page 54 - As a result, both agencies will contribute funding to benefit from the lessons learned from the improved response program of the DP program beginning in fiscal year 2001. Joint planning will be conducted through the Multi-Agency Task Force to coordinate both the improvements of state and local response capabilities and DoD's efforts to enhance its response elements. Beginning in fiscal year 2001, DoJ will assume funding and programmatic responsibility for the Hotline, Helpline and Internet web site,...