To receive testimony on the Department of Defense Domestic Emergency Response Program and support to the interagency preparedness efforts, including the Federal Response Plan and the City Training Program, in review of the Defense Authorization Request for Fiscal Year 1999 and the Future Years Defense Program.

*Witnesses:

Honorable H. Allen Holmes
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations
and Low Intensity Conflict

Major General Edward Soriano
Director, Military Support Headquarters, Department of the Army

Major General George E. Friel
Commander, Chemical and Biological Defense Command
Department of the Army

Brigadier General Roger C. Shultz
Deputy Director, Military Support Headquarters
Department of the Army

*Additional witness to be determined.