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

CONTENTS

Hearing held on July 2, 2002
Statement of:

Reardon, James P., fire chief, Northbrook, IL; Raymond E. Seebald, Cap-
tain, Ú.S. Coast Guard, Port of Chicago, accompanied by Gail Kulish,
Commanding Officer, Atlantic Area Strike Team; Edward G. Buikema,
Regional Director, Region V, Federal Emergency Management Agency;
and JayEtta Hecker, Director, Physical Infrastructure Issues, U.S. Gen-
eral Accounting Office

Wilkinson, John D., chief, fire and life safety services, city of Evanston

Fire Department; Dennis L. Nilsson, commander, field operations divi-

sion, Evanston Police Department; Patrick J. Daly, Assistant Special

Agent in Charge, Chicago Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation;

Quentin Young, M.D., chair, health and medicine policy research group,

Hyde Park Associates in Medicine; John R. Lumpkin, M.D., director,

Illinois Department of Public Health; Pamela S. Diaz, M.D., director,

emergency preparedness and infectious disease control, Chicago De-

partment of Public Health, accompanied by John Wilhelm, M.D., com-

missioner, Chicago Department of Public Health; Arthur B. Schneider,

M.D., professor of medicine, chief of the endocrinology_section, Univer-

sity of Illinois; and David A. Kraft, director, Nuclear Energy Informa-

tion Service .........

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

Buikema, Edward G., Regional Director, Region V, Federal Emergency

Management Agency, prepared statement of

Daly, Patrick J., Assistant Special Agent in Charge, Chicago Division,

Federal Bureau of Investigation, prepared statement of

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Diaz, Pamela S., M.D., director, emergency preparedness and infectious

disease control, Chicago Department of Public Health, prepared state-

ment of

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

Kraft, David A., director, Nuclear Energy Information Service, prepared

statement of ...

Lumpkin, John R., M.D., director, Illinois Department of Public Health,

prepared statement of.........

Reardon, James P., fire chief, Northbrook, IL, prepared statement of

Schneider, Arthur B., M.D., professor of medicine, chief of the endocrinol-

ogy section, University of Illinois, prepared statement of........

Seebald, Raymond E., Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Port of Chicago, pre-

pared statement of ........

Young, Quentin, M.D., chair, health and medicine policy research group,
Hyde Park Associates in Medicine, prepared statement of

(III)