On the recordSeptember 16, 1997
I, of course, strongly support the reauthorization of the act. I was involved in 1977 in the passage of the original program and I have watched it flourish from its original passage up to the present time. I should comment here that developing a program which involves close cooperation of four separate agencies is not easy to do in the bureaucratic world of Washington, and it does challenge the oversight role of the appropriate committees. I think that on the Committee on Science, and particularly under the chairmanship of the gentleman from Wisconsin [Mr. Sensenbrenner], that we have tried to measure up to the requirements of this challenge. The program, over the last two decades, has accomplished many things. It has produced geological maps and model building codes, for example, that have helped many communities not only understand their seismological risk but to know what to do about it.
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