The cooperative venture that the Senator from California has described is clearly the kind of information that we intend the Mission to Planet Earth to provide for our local officials to make real use of this invaluable data from space. We should support hazard reduction programs whenever we can in order to hold down cost of disaster in lives and property in the future.
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