SUBCOMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT EFFICIENCY, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS

STEPHEN HORN, California, Chairman

EX OFFICIO

HENRY A. WAXMAN, California

J. RUSSELL GEORGE, Staff Director and Chief Counsel
BONNIE HEALD, Deputy Staff Director

JUSTIN PAULHAMUS, Clerk

DAVID MCMILLEN, Minority Professional Staff Member

CONTENTS

Hearing held on March 1, 2002

Statement of:

Gilbert, Wendell H., Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs, deputy

to the Governor for Homeland Security; Kenneth Burris, Regional Di-

rector, Federal Emergency Management Agency; Philip Thomas, Spe-

cial Agent in Charge, Memphis field office, Federal Bureau of Inves-

tigation; Jayetta Z. Hecker, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues,

U.S. General Accounting Office; Stanley H. Copeland, director, plan-

ning and training, Tennessee Emergency Management Agency; Adju-

tant General Jackie Wood, Tennessee National Guard; and Allen Craig,

M.D, State epidemiologist, director of Communicable and Environ-

mental Disease Services

Purcell, Bill, mayor, city of Nashville, TN

Schaffner, William, M.D., chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine,
professor of infectious diseases, Vanderbilt University School of Medi-
cine; James E. Thacker, director, mayor's Office of Emergency Manage-
ment, Nashville, TN; Kenneth H. Turner, chief, Nashville Police De-
partment; Stephen D. Halford, director and chief, Nashville Fire De-
partment; Ian David Jones, M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Cen-
ter; James E. Carver, director, Tennessee Valley Authority Police; and
Jim Kulesz, program manager, Systems Engineering and Technology,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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

Burris, Kenneth, Regional Director, Federal Emergency Management

Agency, prepared statement of

Carver, James E., director, Tennessee Valley Authority Police, prepared

statement of

Clement, Hon. Bob, a Representative in Congress from the State of

Tennessee:

Copeland, Stanley H., director, planning and training, Tennessee Emer-

gency Management Agency, prepared statement of..

Craig, Allen, M.D, State epidemiologist, director of Communicable and

Environmental Disease Services, prepared statement of

Gilbert, Wendell H., Tennessee Department of Veterans Affairs, deputy

to the Governor for Homeland Security, prepared statement of

Halford, Stephen D., director and chief, Nashville Fire Department, pre-

pared statement of

Hecker, Jayetta Z., Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, U.S. General
Accounting Office, prepared statement of

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Horn, Hon. Stephen, a Representative in Congress from the State of

California, prepared statement of

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Jones, Ian David, M.D., Vanderbilt University Medical Center, prepared

statement of ....

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Kulesz, Jim, program manager, Systems Engineering and Technology,
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, prepared statement of

Purcell, Bill, mayor, city of Nashville, TN, prepared statement of

Schaffner, William, M.D., chairman, Department of Preventive Medicine,

professor of infectious diseases, Vanderbilt University School of Medi-

cine, prepared statement of

Thacker, James E., director, mayor's Office of Emergency Management,

Nashville, TN, prepared statement of

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

Thomas, Philip, Special Agent in Charge, Memphis field office, Federal
Bureau of Investigation, prepared statement of

Turner, Kenneth H., chief, Nashville Police Department, prepared statement of ...

Wood, Adjutant General Jackie, Tennessee National Guard, prepared statement of

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