America's Natural Disaster Preparedness: Are Investments Paying Off?

Senate Commerce Committee
May 03 2011
2:30 PM

The hearing is focused on federal investments in natural disaster preparedness and the government's plans for response, including on Natural Hazards Risk Reduction Act of 2011, and S. 692, the National Hurricane Research Initiative Act of 201. But Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) also signaled it would involve his Public Safety Spectrum and Wireless Innovation Act which would authorize broadcasters incentive auctions as a way to help pay for a national, interoperable broadband emergency communications network Rockefeller has been pushing for some time now.

Witness Panel

Dr. William H. Hooke
Senior Policy Fellow and Director
American Meteorological Society

Mr. Bob Ryan
Senior Meteorologist
ABC7/WJLA-TV

Dr. Anne S. Kiremidjian
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Stanford University

Dr. Clint N. Dawson P.E.
Professor, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
University of Texas at Austin