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Hrg. 109-943 SECURING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION: AN EXAMINATION OF THE NCR'S STRATEGIC PLAN ======================================================================= HEARING before the OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT, THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SUBCOMMITTEE of the COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDRED NINTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION __________ SEPTEMBER 28, 2006 __________ Available via http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/senate Printed for the use of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 30-603 PDF WASHINGTON DC: 2006 --------------------------------------------------------------------- For sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office Internet: bookstore.gpo.gov Phone: toll free (866)512-1800 DC area (202)512-1800 Fax: (202) 512-2250 Mail Stop SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-0001 COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY AND GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS SUSAN M. COLLINS, Maine, Chairman TED STEVENS, Alaska JOSEPH I. LIEBERMAN, Connecticut GEORGE V. VOINOVICH, Ohio CARL LEVIN, Michigan NORM COLEMAN, Minnesota DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii TOM COBURN, Oklahoma THOMAS R. CARPER, Delaware LINCOLN D. CHAFEE, Rhode Island MARK DAYTON, Minnesota ROBERT F. BENNETT, Utah FRANK LAUTENBERG, New Jersey PETE V. DOMENICI, New Mexico MARK PRYOR, Arkansas JOHN W. WARNER, Virginia Brandon L. Milhorn, Staff Director Michael L. Alexander, Minority Staff Director Trina Driessnack Tyrer, Chief Clerk OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT, THE FEDERAL WORKFORCE AND THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SUBCOMMITTEE GEORGE V. VOINOVICH, Ohio, Chairman TED STEVENS, Alaska DANIEL K. AKAKA, Hawaii eNORM COLEMAN, Minnesota CARL LEVIN, Michigan TOM COBURN, Oklahoma THOMAS R. CARPER, Delaware LINCOLN D. CHAFEE, Rhode Island MARK DAYTON, Minnesota ROBERT F. BENNETT, Utah FRANK LAUTENBERG, New Jersey PETE V. DOMENICI, New Mexico MARK PRYOR, Arkansas JOHN W. WARNER, Virginia Andrew Richardson, Staff Director Richard J. Kessler, Minority Staff Director Nanci E. Langley, Minority Deputy Staff Director Emily Marthaler, Chief Clerk C O N T E N T S ------ Opening statements: Page Senator Voinovich............................................ 1 Senator Akaka................................................ 3 WITNESSES Thursday, September 28, 2006 Anthony H. Griffin, County Executive, Fairfax County, Virginia, and Chairman, Chief Administrative Officers Committee, Washington Metropolitan Council of Governments................. 4 Edward D. Reiskin, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice, District of Columbia........................................... 6 Hon. Robert P. Crouch, Jr., Assistant to the Governor for Commonwealth Preparedness, Commonwealth of Virginia............ 8 Hon. Dennis R. Schrader, Director of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security, State of Maryland........................... 10 Thomas Lockwood, Director, Office of National Capital Region Coordination, U.S. Department of Homeland Security............. 11 William O. Jenkins, Jr., Director Homeland Security and Justice Issues, U.S. Government Accountability Office.................. 13 Alphabetical List of Witnesses Crouch, Hon. Robert P., Jr.: Testimony.................................................... 8 Joint prepared statement with attachments.................... 34 Jenkins, William O., Jr.: Testimony.................................................... 13 Prepared statement........................................... 208 Griffin, Anthony H.: Testimony.................................................... 4 Prepared statement........................................... 29 Lockwood, Thomas: Testimony.................................................... 11 Prepared statement........................................... 204 Reiskin, Edward D.: Testimony.................................................... 6 Joint prepared statement with attachments.................... 34 Schrader, Hon. Dennis R.: Testimony.................................................... 10 Joint prepared statement with attachments.................... 34 APPENDIX Joint Responses to Questions for the Record from Mr. Reiskin, Mr. Crouch, Jr., and Dennis R. Schrader............................ 233 Responses to Questions for the Record from Mr. Lockwood.......... 239 Responses to Questions for the Record from Mr. Jenkins, Jr....... 240 SECURING THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION: AN EXAMINATION OF THE NCR'S STRATEGIC PLAN ---------- THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2006 U.S. Senate, Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia, Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Washington, DC. The Subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:03 a.m., in room SD-342, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. George V. Voinovich, Chairman of the Subcommittee, presiding. Present: Senators Voinovich and Akaka. OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR VOINOVICH Senator Voinovich. The Subcommittee will come to order. Good morning. We have quite a panel here in front of us, Senator Akaka. We want to thank you for joining us. Today the Subcommittee on the Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce, and the District of Columbia meets for the third time this Congress to examine the collective ability of the governments and responsible authorities of the National Capital Region (NCR), to respond to a terrorist attack or natural disaster. The National Capital Region is the seat of the Federal Government and, as the symbol of freedom in the world, remains a prime target for a terrorist attack. At the same time, the record-breaking rains the region experienced in June, which closed down streets all over the region, disabled parts of the Metro system, and closed Federal buildings, demonstrated that we must be prepared to respond to all hazards. In June 2004, GAO released a report which recommended that the Office of the National Capital Region Coordination within the Department of Homeland Security work with local jurisdictions to develop a coordinated strategic plan to establish goals and priorities, monitor the plan's implementation, and identify and address gaps in the emergency preparedness. In addition, I believe that any strategic plan must include measurable performance goals. At our first Subcommittee hearing in July 2005, Mr. Lockwood testified that a final strategic plan would be released in September 2005. Although a year late, I am pleased to see that NCR has developed a strategic plan to prevent, protect, and respond to a terrorist attack or a natural disaster. I am also pleased to learn that it was a collaborative effort between all jurisdictions within the NCR. With a region that is comprised of many Federal, State, and local jurisdictions all playing a part in decisionmaking, it certainly makes the job more difficult. I understand how difficult it can be. As a former mayor and county commissioner, getting people together in Cuyahoga County was no easy task. I understand the importance of both State and local officials collaboratively working together toward a unified goal. Mr. Lockwood, I look forward to hearing how you coordinated Federal, State, and local officials to complete the plan. I am also pleased to learn that NCR worked with the Government Accountability Office to develop this strategic plan. I encourage all of you to continue this relationship as the plan matures over time. Mr. Jenkins, I am interested in learning GAO's assessment of the strategic plan and the role of your agency in the process. I am also interested in examining specific capabilities and programs in the NCR. Based upon the last Subcommittee hearing on the NCR, it was not clear if the region had an effective, interoperable communications system. Earlier this month, my Subcommittee staff attended an NCR interoperable communications exercise, the purpose of which was to demonstrate voice communication capabilities across the region. I understand that the exercise was a success. I am pleased to know that NCR is able to communicate in a time of crisis. I am interested in hearing from our panel how the NCR plans to enhance interoperable communications in a region to include data interoperability. I am particularly interested in it because Ohio is a leader in interoperability communications systems. They are now working on data interoperability. Since September 11, 2001, the NCR has received significant resources for equipment, training, planning, and other preparedness efforts. At the last hearing, we discussed the development of a web-based tracking program to manage and monitor the region's Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grants. However, I still have concerns with the lack of information regarding non-UASI funding in the database as there is significant non-UASI funding flowing into the region. Without a central system to track all types of grants, I am concerned that it will make it difficult to priorities initiatives and lead to duplicative spending. I look forward to learning if the region plans to fully implement the recommendations of GAO to track all grant funding. Before concluding my remarks, I would like to again recognize the hard work and dedication of all the panelists today and the first responders in the region. I know the development of the strategic plan took a great deal of work from all of you and your staffs. Your work and dedication is vital to improving the safety of the NCR. We recently observed the 5-year anniversary of September 11, 2001. The anniversary reminds all of us of the threat that still looms to the region and the need to be diligent in every aspect of securing the NCR. I offer whatever assistance I can to ensure that you have the necessary resources to get the job done, and I assure you that I will continue to monitor the progress in the region. It is very important to me, and I intend to stay on top of this, and so does Senator Akaka, in terms of our oversight responsibilities. I now yield to my good friend, Senator Akaka, who has just come off a very successful primary victory in his home State of Hawaii. Senator Akaka. OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR AKAKA Senator Akaka. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. It has been a pleasure working with you to pursue the completion of this NCR Strategic Plan. I want to commend you on your leadership of this oversight Subcommittee. We are fortunate that we have this ability to work together on these matters. Today, we convene the Subcommittee's third hearing on the security of the National Capital Region (NCR), and I want to welcome our witnesses back to the Subcommittee, and I want to tell you that, from what I can see, you have made tremendous progress. Completing a Homeland Security Strategic Plan for the NCR is a huge step forward. Bringing 14 State and local jurisdictions together and achieving consensus is not easy. However, in the case of the Nation's capital, it is necessary and I commend you for accomplishing this task. The final version of the strategic plan is a vast improvement upon the draft documents that preceded it. However, I have a few suggestions for improvement. The first is metrics. Many of the goals in the plan are hard to measure. The second is the timeline. Most of the target dates are in 2006, 2007, and 2008. A strategic plan should look beyond 2 years in the future. So I encourage you to treat the plan as a working document so it may be continually reviewed and updated. While the focus of today's hearing is the strategic plan, I also would like to address the issue of interoperability and the Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI) grants. The NCR has made great strides in the area of interoperable communications. Many have asked whether first responders in the NCR have the ability to communicate with each other in times of crisis. As our witnesses will tell us, the answer is yes. My staff attended a demonstration of the communications capability of the NCR jurisdictions in early September, and they listened as Prince George's County firefighters talked to their counterparts in Montgomery County, who talked to the D.C. Police. Press reports which State that Prince George's County is not interoperable with the rest of the NCR have oversimplified the issue. First responders from PG County can communicate with first responders in the rest of the NCR through a technical bridge, otherwise known as a patch, which takes minutes to apply. This region is far ahead of most parts of the country in terms of interoperability, which is an immensely difficult challenge. And, again, I am really praising you. You all deserve credit for that. An area of concern for me is this year's NCR and UASI grant is the UASI grant application. This region has access to unprecedented resources and expertise, including the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Office of National Capital Region Coordination, because it is the Nation's capital. So I was surprised to hear DHS say that the region's UASI application was lacking. I hope that next year it is risk and need, not paperwork, that determines the NCR's homeland security funding. In particular, I want to ensure that the DHS ONCRC is providing adequate assistance to the region given that Members of this Subcommittee worked to significantly increase the ONCRC's budget in fiscal year 2007. Again, I would like to commend the members of the NCR, both State and local officials, for what you have accomplished because your jobs are not easy. Many challenges lie ahead, and I urge you to continue on a path of cooperation and coordination as you have, and we look forward to still more progress. So thank you again. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator Voinovich. Thank you, Senator Akaka. We do have an excellent panel today. Anthony Griffin is County Executive for Fairfax County. Ed Reiskin is Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice for the District of Columbia. Hon. Robert Crouch is Assistant to the Governor for Commonwealth Preparedness for the State of Virginia. Hon. Dennis Schrader is the Director of Maryland's Governor's Office of Homeland Security. Thomas Lockwood is Director of the Office of National Capital Region Coordination at the Department of Homeland Security. And William Jenkins is Director of Homeland Security and Justice Issues at the Government Accountability Office. Gentlemen, it is a pleasure to see you again, and we look forward to your testimony. I would appreciate it if you would hold your comments to 5 minutes. Of course, you know that your full written statement will be entered into the record. It's the custom of this Subcommittee, if you will all stand, I will swear you in. Do you swear that the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you, God? Mr. Griffin. I do. Mr. Reiskin. I do. Mr. Crouch. I do. Mr. Schrader. I do. Mr. Lockwood. I do. Mr. Jenkins. I do. Senator Voinovich. Mr. Griffin, we will start with you. TESTIMONY OF ANTHONY H. GRIFFIN,\1\ COUNTY EXECUTIVE, FAIRFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA, AND CHAIRMAN, CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS COMMITTEE, WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS Mr. Griffin. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ The prepared statement of Mr. Griffin appears in the Appendix on page 29. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Chairman and Ranking Member Akaka, thank you for the opportunity to speak to you on behalf of my fellow chief administrative officers in the National Capital Region on the role of local government in securing the National Capital Region. The chief administrative officers worked in close partnership with others in the region in developing the recently completed National Capital Region's Homeland Security Strategic Plan. It is a long-term, unified effort to improve an all-hazards approach across the region. This plan lays out our regionwide strategy for strengthening our capabilities across all phases of preparedness--prevention, protection, response, and recovery--to manage homeland security risks. It sets our course and provides a strategic approach for planning and decisionmaking. The all-hazards approach to preparedness means we need to weigh the likelihood and consequences of a broad array of threats. These include, but are not limited to, extremes in weather, industrial hazards, viral pathogens, and, of course, terrorism that can take many forms. Implementing the plan will be a complex process that will involve all of the National Capital Region's partners to include government as well as private and civic sectors. The NCR needs tangible programs that are aligned with the strategic plan. The region must allocate resources and find additional sources of funding to support these programs and must put in place oversight and accountability structures and processes. The Emergency Preparedness Council has assumed responsibility for implementing the strategic plan, and the chief administrative officers look forward to supporting them. Local governments continue to lead the way in emergency response. We generally operate the same on a day-to-day basis as we do during emergency situations. Therefore, if a terrorist attack were to happen in Fairfax County, Fairfax County would be in charge of the response. If an incident took place in Prince George's County, Prince George's County would lead the way. Local Emergency Operation Plans outline the areas of responsibility for local agencies when responding to disasters or large-scale emergency situations. These plans assign broad responsibilities for disaster mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery to local government agencies and support organizations. All emergency responses begin at the local level; however, when a local jurisdiction determines that it no longer has adequate resources to manage the event, the locality can request assistance from other localities through the region's mutual aid network or declare an emergency and request assistance from the State. Once the State has been notified, it will provide assistance within its capability. If the State is unable to provide the requested assistance, the governor in turn will contact the President to request a declaration of emergency and Federal disaster assistance coordinated by FEMA. Should the region need military support, the Joint Force Headquarters-National Capital Region was established to plan and coordinate for homeland defense and civil support operations. This support would be coordinated through the Defense Coordinating Officer in the Joint Field office subsequent to a Presidential Disaster Declaration except in life-threatening situations where support would be provided immediately. We have continued to strengthen our homeland security collaboration with Major General Swan and the Joint Force Headquarters. We also coordinate with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of National Capital Region Coordination. Both of these Federal offices will help ensure a timely response by the Federal Government to requests for assistance. I am going to summarize my comments by focusing on the last page of my testimony. As critical as the UASI funding is to the NCR for enhancement of the region's ability to prevent and respond, I want to emphasize that the cost of response rests primarily with the local governments. In Fairfax County alone, funding in fiscal year 2007 dollars has been allocated to the following functions which account for the majority of our first responders: Police, $162.4 million; fire and rescue, $166.3 million; sheriff, $38.6 million; Office of Emergency Management, $1.45 million; Health Department, $45 million; 911 communications, $8.9 million--for a total of $422.65 million. Additionally, the county is currently building a Public Safety and Transportation Operations Center which will include facilities for the State Police and the Virginia Department of Transportation's regional traffic management system. The county's share is approximately $90 million. Given the county's investment in 36 fire stations, 9 police substations, and other supporting facilities, and our collaborative approach to response utilized through the emergency support functions, Fairfax County spends approximately half a billion dollars annually to give the county the capacity to respond to emergencies on an all-hazards basis. Our companion jurisdictions in the National Capital Region are funding comparable investments according to population and geographic size. In summary, local governments in the NCR are better prepared and more coordinated since September 11, 2001. Our ability to communicate and cooperate has been tested several times since with anthrax, snipers, hurricanes, and tropical storms. Valuable experience also was gained from sending local government teams to the Gulf Coast last year. We have made plans for pandemic flu and have completed the strategic plan. We have learned much, but know that we have much to do. We are, however, prepared to respond now and anytime in the future. Thank you. Senator Voinovich. Thank you very much. Mr. Reiskin. TESTIMONY OF EDWARD D. REISKIN,\1\ DEPUTY MAYOR FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AND JUSTICE, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Mr. Reiskin. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Akaka. I would like to start by requesting that, in addition to our written testimony, the strategic plan itself and the associated documents be entered into the record. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ The joint prepared statement of Messrs. Reiskin, Crouch, and Schrader with attachments appears in the Appendix on page 34. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Senator Voinovich. Without objection. Mr. Reiskin. I would like to start by affirming, as Mr. Griffin indicated, that we work collaboratively and in a coordinated way across the region every day. We work across jurisdictions, across disciplines, across sectors to provide for and improve the safety and security of the region. And while we have been working together for decades in the region through the Council of Governments, we certainly stepped that effort up after September 11, when the Mayor of the District of Columbia and the Governors of Maryland and Virginia came together to commit to a joint effort in securing the National Capital Region. And since that time, we have planned together. We have developed a Regional Emergency Coordination Plan. We are currently developing a Regional Evacuation and Sheltering Plan. We have trained our first responders and incident managers together. We have practiced together in exercises and many real events, as Mr. Griffin indicated. We have agreed on common standards for equipment and communications. We have jointly developed education, outreach, and alert notification systems for the public. And we have developed regional systems that are truly regional in nature, such as a disease surveillance system, law enforcement data-sharing system, water quality monitoring systems, and the interoperable communications infrastructure that Mr. Crouch will discuss. My point is that collaboration and coordination across the region is not something new. It is something that we do every day. The strategic plan that has been the subject of interest to this Subcommittee is just another manifestation of that collaboration, albeit it a significant one. This plan, which updates the previous strategy that we had developed in 2003, represents a significant effort of broad-based collaboration, and collaboration far beyond the stakeholders that you see sitting at this table, to identify how we should move forward to safeguard and secure the region. It incorporates learnings from a regional emergency management accreditation program assessment process from the Department of Homeland Security's National Plan Review, from our own review of our programs and capabilities. As we have previously testified, the plan starts with a vision for a safe and secure region and articulates the mission of the many homeland security partners in the region to achieve that vision. It establishes four goals: Improved coordination, improved community engagement, improved prevention and protection, and improved response and recovery. And under each of these goals are objectives we have identified to achieve each goal, and under each objective are initiatives we need to execute in order to achieve the objectives. Some of these initiatives, in fact, are already underway. A critical one and one that will help further shape the plan's implementation is a regionwide risk assessment. The risk assessment will analyze the threats faced by the region, take a look at our vulnerabilities and the consequences of various different threat scenarios in order to develop the risk profile of the region, both for natural and manmade disasters, which will help us to better prioritize our efforts and this plan moving forward. Overall, the plan provides a robust framework for decisionmaking. It has the buy-in of all the stakeholders across our diverse region, and it will guide decisions, not just of funding but of policy, of procedure, of legislation, of standards. And, indeed, since we have had this plan largely in place for a while now, we have already used it. It guided our allocation of the last round of UASI funds, and we are using it to prioritize our activities now on an ongoing basis. And, Ranking Member Akaka, it is most certainly a working document, and, in particular, as both you and the GAO have suggested, we will work to refine and improve the metrics so that we can hold ourselves accountable for improvement moving forward. I do want to note that this plan is not an operational plan. This is not the document that you pick up when a hurricane strikes or when a bomb explodes. Jurisdiction Response Plans--in our case, the District Response Plan--are what prescribe our response. And we have all had Response Plans in place for a long time. We train our people to those plans, we exercise those plans, and we activate those plans during disasters. So I do want you to rest assured, and as I think Mr. Griffin indicated, that we have the ability to respond today. The strategic plan will help us improve our capabilities not just to respond but to prevent, protect against, and recover from disaster. With my remaining seconds, I would like to take a moment to brag a little bit. Earlier this week, Secretary Chertoff joined Mayor Williams at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for our new Unified Communications Center, which is a brand new center off of Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Southeast Washington, DC, which will house--or is housing now a state-of-the-art public safety communications system and a new state-of-the-art Emergency Operations Center. This is an investment largely of local dollars, though with some Federal support, and it is really a tremendous step forward for us on bringing together all the critical communications that are needed both on a day- to-day basis as well as that would be needed for a disaster. So it is something that we are very proud of, and I invite you and your staffs to come visit it at any time. With that, I thank you for having us here today. Senator Voinovich. Thank you very much. Mr. Crouch. TESTIMONY OF HON. ROBERT P. CROUCH, JR.,\1\ ASSISTANT TO THE GOVERNOR FOR COMMONWEALTH PREPAREDNESS, COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA Mr. Crouch. Yes, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Akaka. It is a pleasure to be with you here this morning and to speak to interoperability in the National Capital Region. And I was impressed that both the Chairman and the Ranking Member in their opening statements mentioned the fact that we do indeed have effective voice interoperability throughout the National Capital Region, and that was demonstrated on September 12 at the demonstration in Alexandria. That demonstration brought together 50 different agencies and responder groups from throughout the National Capital Region, including firefighters, police officers, and others from the city of Alexandria; from Arlington County; the District of Columbia; Fairfax County; Frederick County, Maryland; Loudoun County, Virginia; Montgomery County; Prince George's County, as was noted by Senator Akaka--and thank you for making that reference, Senator--Prince William County; Maryland State Police; Maryland Department of Transportation; the Virginia State Police; the Virginia Department of Transportation; the FBI; and ATF. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ The joint prepared statement of Messrs. Reiskin, Crouch, and Schrader with attachments appears in the Appendix on page 34. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- What that demonstration evidenced was not simply that those agencies had the capacity to connect through voice interoperability, but that, in fact, they frequently do so day to day as they respond to the concerns of the people within the District of Columbia and in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs. So it is important to note that this is operational voice interoperability that we have throughout the National Capital Region. An important aspect of that interoperability is incident command. We know that interoperability, whether it is data or voice, is not simply a matter of technology, but it is also a matter of culture. And I would echo what both Ed Reiskin and Tony Griffin have said earlier in this testimony regarding the importance of our reliance on the localities, and the localities are where these events occur and where the great credit needs to go in terms of developing these responses. We, at the State level and at the Federal level, can say a lot and try to do a lot in terms of cooperation and coordination, but unless the localities and the first responders in those localities are committed to that cooperation, our rhetoric is for naught. And the accomplishments that have been achieved thus far in the National Capital Region and the interoperability field otherwise really are to the credit of our first responders and our local departments and agencies and local governments. But incident command is a critical aspect of that, and all of our agencies have adopted the National Incident Management System, trained to that, and practice it every day. As the printed submitted testimony indicates, throughout the National Capital Region we have used over $50 million in UASI funding in the past 3 years to address interoperability issues. Many of those projects are included among those projects are reverse 911 systems, patient tracking for mass casualty and surge capacity, the development of the WebEOC system. The Chairman asked about data interoperability, and this is clearly our next big challenge as we move forward. We have several initiatives already ongoing in the data-sharing arena, including WebEOC, which is Emergency Operations Center to Emergency Operations Center, giving visibility of events one to another; LInX, a Law Enforcement Information Sharing System; AFIS, an Automatic Fingerprint Identification System; RoamSecure, which provides e-mail alerts via handheld devices; the National Capital Region Syndromic Surveillance Network, which is a health trend surveillance network for disease; and a Hospital Mutual Aid Radio System. As we move forward in terms of our efforts for the National Capital Region, it is important, again, to emphasize that all of this is linked to efforts within the States and within the localities. In Virginia, we have a very robust project underway to develop a new communications system among our 21 State agencies. We call it STARS. The Commonwealth has invested $360 million in that. That effort is closely linked to what we are doing in the National Capital Region. Additionally, we have a Commonwealth Interoperability Office that works closely with our localities, has developed a strategic plan that the Department of Homeland Security uses as a model for States throughout the Nation, and governs the grants process for interoperability efforts throughout the Commonwealth. But all of those efforts at the State level are linked closely with what we are doing in the National Capital Region, just as the Unified Communications Center and efforts in Maryland, as well as Washington, DC, are also linked to those efforts. Data communication is our next focus, Mr. Chairman. We obviously need to continue building that out as we have continued to build out voice interoperability. It is a pleasure to be with you this morning, and I look forward to your questions. Senator Voinovich. Thank you. Mr. Schrader. TESTIMONY OF HON. DENNIS R. SCHRADER,\1\ DIRECTOR OF THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE OF HOMELAND SECURITY, STATE OF MARYLAND Mr. Schrader. Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Akaka, thank you for having us here today. I want to mention that implementing the plan requires focus, a fiduciary responsibility on our part, which leads to management of cost, schedule, and performance, and that is the hallmark of the implementation of this plan. The plan includes 30 initiatives with items such as designing and conducting risk-based threat analysis, which is underway as we speak; increasing civic involvement and volunteerism in all phases of disaster preparedness; and developing a common regional information-sharing and collaboration framework. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ The joint prepared statement of Messrs. Reiskin, Crouch, and Schrader with attachments appears in the Appendix on page 34. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- I might add that we have been working on linking our Fusion Centers, and just anecdotally, recently when the United Kingdom situation unfolded, we were doing our monthly program review meeting in Richmond, and we managed our efforts collaboratively out of Richmond. So we are very well oriented towards working together. But getting those Fusion Centers linked is very important. The plan allows us to give strategic guidance to the practitioner community so that they can develop and execute specific projects to implement these initiatives. We have to have a system that is inclusive and transparent, and we have been developing that over the last 3 or 4 years, where we work in direct coordination with the local practitioners who guide us in implementation. And the strategic plan will give us the measures to gauge performance covering the full spectrum of activity and outcome measures that will lead us to success. In order to accomplish all this and coming out of our original plan that we adopted in 2003, we realized that we needed to focus on program management and accountability, which is not a small task. And the Program Management Office was established in 2004 and serves as the integrated State Administrative Agent for the National Capital Region and the District of Columbia and is responsible for program administration. That process has been evolving and continues to improve. The office was established to effectively manage the more than $234 million in grants that have been given to the region. We need additional tools, and we are in the process and by the end of the year we will have a new system called the State Preparedness Administrative Response System--the acronym is SPARS--which will allow us to do web-based project management through a web portal, and we are hoping that will migrate to the States. The Program Management Office is charged with implementing the strategic plan. It has a critical role in developing the processes, the methodologies, and tools to ensure that projects are completed on schedule and within budget. And there are monthly reviews of these projects. The projects are managed by sub-grants to the local jurisdictions which requires a significant amount of energy, time, and effort by the local jurisdictions, who also have day jobs. And we are sensitive to the fact that the Program Office has to work collaboratively, and it is quite an undertaking. In addition, the chief administrative officers who have shouldered the burden for being responsible for project implementation regularly review these projects, as we do, and we are focused on making sure that they are on time, and if not on time, we have a reprogramming process that reviews what backlog of projects could be moved up on the queue to move the program along. Last, I will mention that we are also very focused in this process of integrating Maryland, District of Columbia, and Virginia programs in the seven fundamental areas of homeland security, which include public safety communications, information sharing and intelligence, law enforcement, transportation security, emergency preparedness, health and medical, and critical infrastructure protection. I would add that, for example, in our transit grants, we have one committee which manages all the Maryland and NCR grants collaboratively because of the feeder systems that come from Maryland and Virginia into the District, and that has been very successful. Probably our greatest challenge is the execution of project management and our fiduciary role in that, and we take that very seriously. And it is ongoing week by week. We have weekly conference calls where we focus on this on a week-in and week- out basis. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator Voinovich. Thank you very much. Mr. Lockwood. TESTIMONY OF THOMAS LOCKWOOD,\1\ DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION COORDINATION, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY Mr. Lockwood. Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member Akaka, thank you for the opportunity to come to discuss our efforts. The last time that we met, the Subcommittee raised a number of questions and concerns regarding regional coordination and the status of the strategic plan. Per your recommendations, we have worked very closely with GAO on several occasions for advice, input, and to discuss key recommendations. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ The prepared statement of Mr. Lockwood appears in the Appendix on page 204. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- As you have heard from my State and local colleagues, we have made significant progress in the National Capital Region, beyond the plan itself, but also the fundamentals that go within the plan. The centerpiece of this effort, in fact, is the strategic plan that is complete, and I join Ed Reiskin, my fellow members of the SPG, and our local government, in submitting this plan for the record. The plan has three parts: The Core Plan that provides the overall strategy goals and objectives; Volume II, which is the detailed practitioner-level information; another piece is the overview briefly summarizing key points of this for the lay personnel. The completion of the plan is a significant milestone. In reviewing our homeland security plans, including those supplied by GAO, it is clear that this plan is unprecedented. Our region is complex. We have multiple jurisdictions. We have multiple challenges and organizations here which we detailed in the last testimony. As you can appreciate, any catastrophic event, whether natural or human-caused, respects no boundaries. When coupled with the geopolitical complexities in the NCR, we can appreciate the significant challenges in this region. Completion of this plan required significant investment of resources, time, and focus at all levels--public and private. It has been unprecedented, and they have built a strong, long- term plan. The plan is a 3- to 5-year plan for managing risk and strengthening homeland security. The 3-year phase of the plan looks at the programming, budgeting, and execution, but provides an overall planning framework for the next 5 years. It sets forth clear strategic goals, objectives, specific initiatives to make the NCR safe and secure. It provides a means to gauge the region's progress and over time to make informed adjustments to the strategy. The NCR partners went to great lengths to align the details of the plan with large numbers of planning documents, guidance, and recommendations from GAO on various assessments. While assessing risks and identifying vulnerabilities and understanding their consequences are critical to determining what needs to be done, the fundamentals of collaboration, coordination, and information and resource sharing are the principal means of how to build and sustain these capabilities in the region. The plan serves as a road map for strengthening these capabilities and enhancing the capacity to realize this vision over time. In March, we reported that the final plan was delayed in order to take into account results and outcomes of the Emergency Management Accreditation Program assessment and DHS's National Review Plan. Since that time, all of the jurisdictions have completed the regional assessments. This is the first time in the Nation that this assessment has been applied in a regional context. The process demonstrates that jurisdictions or in this case multiple jurisdictions, are aiming to use its resources to provide these capabilities, and it truly is revolutionary what was done here. This was discussed recently with the National Emergency Management Association truly as a precedent. Additionally, in June, the Department completed the National Plan Review and provided post-Katrina recommendations and assessments. The results of these have been included in the plan. In moving forward, we have talked about the framework that has been established to execute the plan. A team, collaborative, bottom-up approach that we will use to continue to develop and promote the culture in the region. We will continue to enhance our coordinated approach for communications and interaction amongst the stakeholders for more effective prioritization and execution within the region. We will update this plan on an annual basis to reflect changes in conditions. It provides the region with a common framework to coordinate and implement. In closing, the plan is the outcome of a long, comprehensive, collaborative process. It is part of the long- term regional picture of preparedness efforts. The region continues to work well, working across as peers and stakeholders within the safety for the National Capital Region. Senator Voinovich. Thank you, Mr. Lockwood. Mr. Jenkins. TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM O. JENKINS, JR.,\1\ DIRECTOR HOMELAND SECURITY AND JUSTICE ISSUES, U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE Mr. Jenkins. Chairman Voinovich, Ranking Member Akaka, I am pleased to be here today to discuss the National Capital Region's recently completed strategic plan. We first recommended in 2004 that the NCR create a strategic plan. A coordinated strategic plan, appropriately implemented, is fundamental to ensuring that the region as a whole is prepared for the risks and hazards it faces. To be effective, the plan must be a living document that is used as a guideline and road map for funding and implementing initiatives to build and sustain needed emergency preparedness and response capabilities within the region. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- \1\ The prepared statement of Mr. Jenkins appears in the Appendix on page 208. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- In our testimony last March, we identified six desirable characteristics of strategic planning that we suggested should be embodied in the NCR Strategic Plan, and the completed plan includes all six. These characteristics reflect three basic principles: One, the inclusion of a clear statement of what is important and why; two, identification of resources to achieve the identified goals and objectives; and, three, the establishment of performance measures and accountability for monitoring progress and achieving key goals and objectives. The plan's structure is more streamlined than previously and includes three basic parts: An overview, a core plan, and a detail appendix with initiatives and information on such things as risk, cost, roles, and responsibilities. The plan is a noticeable improvement over prior documents and more clearly defines the roles and responsibilities of various groups responsible for developing, revising, and implementing the plan. Although the completed plan is a noticeable improvement, the substance of the information in the plan could be improved. Two examples: First, the plan does not reflect the results of the comprehensive risk assessment for the region. Completion of such an assessment, which is underway, using a common framework as a priority initiative in the plan and should be completed as soon as possible. When this more comprehensive assessment is completed, it may indeed require revisiting some of the plan's priorities. Second, although the plan defined objectives as being key, measurable milestones for each goal, performance measures for a number of objectives are stated in rather vague terms, such as ``enhance,'' ``improve,'' ``increase,'' or ``strengthen.'' Although the plan includes outcome measures, a number of its measures are activities, such as number of registered volunteers. The plan identifies 30 initiatives with the leads dispersed across a number of organizations. It will be essential that the activities of the various lead organizations are well coordinated and that they have the authority, resources, and mechanisms to carry out their lead responsibilities effectively. Moreover, there is a potential gap between the estimated cost of the plan's initiatives, about $100 to $150 million, and the resources that may be available to the NCR and its member jurisdictions from Federal sources. This year, for example, the NCR received about $100 million less than it had requested for its Urban Area Security Initiative grant. Therefore, the plan should recognize that if the plan's initiatives are to be implemented on schedule, especially the 18 scheduled for completion in 2007, NCR jurisdictions may need to contribute more than originally anticipated toward their completion. As has been noted, the NCR is not an operational entity, but the result of implementing the NCR Strategic Plan must be effective regional operational capabilities. Thus, it is essential that the operational plans in member jurisdictions align with and support the NCR strategic goals and objectives. In conclusion, Mr. Chairman, the NCR has made noticeable progress in developing its first strategic plan. Although we have identified limitations that should be addressed, the challenge now is one of effective implementation. This includes careful monitoring of initiatives and ongoing assessment of the plan's success in achieving needed capabilities and operational plans. The goal must be the region's collective ability to protect against, prepare for, and respond with effective, well- planned, and well-coordinated actions that will save lives and mitigate the effects of a major or catastrophic disaster in the region. That concludes my statement, Mr. Chairman. I would be pleased to respond to any questions you or the Ranking Member may have. Senator Voinovich. Thank you very much. Mr. Schrader, you mentioned that the NCR has received more than $234 million in grants. Mr. Griffin, you also mentioned that in your respective jurisdictions you are spending a lot more money than you had originally anticipated. I would like to know the numbers from your respective jurisdictions in terms of the amount of additional money that you believe you are spending that is attributable to this new challenge since September 11, 2001. We are trying to get this information for the Department of Homeland Security. It is a significant sum of money, and it is interesting to know just what we are doing to protect the homeland and the NCR. Mr. Jenkins, the issue always is are we going to be able to measure success. From an oversight point of view, 6 months from now if we had a hearing, what are the measurements that we would use to determine whether or not things are on track in the NCR? Mr. Jenkins.Well, I think as we say in our statement, one of the things is as these initiatives are put forward, the way you are going to be able to measure progress is that the initiatives have themselves specific measures that are a little bit--definitely more specific than ``strengthen'' or ``enhance,'' as well as the objectives. So you know that this initiative is designed to get you to a certain point, and it should be focused on capabilities, the capabilities that you are gaining by being able to do this. And that means that you have to have, first of all, a notion of where I want to go, what is the end goal that I want to get to, some notion of where I am relative to that goal and how much this particular initiative or combination of initiatives is going to help you close that gap. Senator Voinovich. Mr. Jenkins, are there measurements in the plan right now that we can look to? Mr. Jenkins. There are a mixture of measures, and there are outcome measures. We think that there--as I said in my oral statement, there are things where they really can focus a little bit more on things that are quantifiable measurements. They should not be so much activity measures. They should be essentially outcome measures to the maximum extent possible. And they do have some outcome measures, but we would be happy to--we have pointed out to them in an oral briefing that we had on our assessment where we think some of the measures can be improved. Senator Voinovich. Mr. Reiskin, you are an appointee of the mayor. Are you civil service? Mr. Reiskin. I am not. I serve at the pleasure of the mayor. Senator Voinovich. The District of Columbia is going to have a new mayor. Has consideration been given in the event that they bring in somebody else that there is going to be a baton transfer? Mr. Reiskin. Well, I guess all I can say is both the current mayor and the presumptive mayor-elect have both said to each other and publicly that they are both absolutely committed to a smooth transition in all areas, but particularly including this one. And I actually was recently appointed interim city administrator for the District, and the one thing the mayor said to me was, ``What I need you to do is ensure that the transition is smooth.'' So I think that the commitment is clearly there on both sides to ensure that happens. Senator Voinovich. Do you have reliable people working with you that are civil service? Mr. Reiskin. Yes. The majority of the government, of course, is in a civil service or protected position. It is really just the top layer that is not. Senator Voinovich. Are all of the other people in front of me appointed, with changes in administration? When I was governor, I would tell my folks that you have got to have somebody who can takeover if something happens to you. You have all thought about this and are prepared? Mr. Reiskin. And we have recently, in Virginia, gone through a transition where the person that we worked with on a day-to-day basis moved on, a new governor came in, and I would say that we really carried on without skipping a beat in terms of coordination across the region. So I expect that would continue. Senator Voinovich. Great. From my perspective, you all get along together. You can have the best plan in the world, but if folks do not get along then you are in trouble. But if everyone gets along then you have a wonderful opportunity to be successful. Senator Akaka, we will have 5-minute rounds. Senator Akaka. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Reiskin, on September 17, the NCR held an exercise to test the region's ability to evacuate Metro transit system after a bomb exploded. That was the scenario. One capability tested was whether first responders could communicate if radio equipment in the Metro tunnels was knocked out. Will you please share what worked, what did not work, and what procedural changes have been made since the exercise? Mr. Reiskin. Certainly, I will try, Ranking Member Akaka. One of the objectives in the exercise was to take down the communications system. That was the purpose of the exercise, to test what the response would be. What worked was our radio cache. With our Federal dollars we purchased 1,250 radios that are deployed across the region, that are all programmed in the same way so that when direct or patched communications do not work, for whatever reasons, a reason like this or because something is coming in from the outside, we have ways to interoperate and communicate. That cache was deployed, and I would say that aspect of this worked. A temporary repeater was brought down into the tunnel to enable the radios to work. That part worked. What I think did not work was the communication between the radio cache radios and the Metro system radios that were brought back up when the repeater was put down. And it was not a technological issue. It was a matter of the programming of some of the Metro radios. As I think Mr. Crouch indicated, often the technology is not the issue. We can do virtually anything voice-wise to connect people. But protocols have to be in place, radios have to be maintained, and my understanding is that the fleet maps, how the different channels on the radios were set were not consistent such that people could find each other from a cache radio to a Metro radio. That is my understanding. I think they are still doing an after-action review, but, clearly, one of the lessons that will come out of that--and I would imagine it is happening already-- is to ensure that all of the fleet mapping of all the radios are up-to-date. One of the things our new Unified Communications Center houses is our radio function, and we, within the District, have centralized that to make sure that we maintain our radios and keep them up-to-date. That is a piece of making sure interoperability across the region works. Senator Akaka. Thank you. I would like--and I should have mentioned it--to hear from Mr. Crouch and Mr. Schrader on the same question. Mr. Crouch. Thank you, Senator. I certainly would agree with Mr. Reiskin's assessment. I would also point out that one use of the radio caches that he mentioned--and we have three of those that have been purchased through the UASI funding throughout the National Capital Region--is to have radios that are available if folks were to come from Richmond or Baltimore, for example, to assist in an event and we would have those additional radios available. But it is important to note that those radios are not just used in an exercise such as the recent Metro exercise, but they are used on events like the 4th of July and other events regularly in the region. So we make sure that the maintenance is up-to-date in that regard. Senator Akaka. Mr. Schrader. Mr. Schrader. Yes, Ranking Member Akaka. I also wanted to add that one of the things that the development of this plan has done for us is it has brought us much closer to the WMATA leadership. Mr. Tangherlini has made it his business to get engaged. We have worked collaboratively. In this past grant cycle, for example, we are investing $3 million in improving and upgrading the communications elements down in the tunnels. So we recognize that the WMATA asset is an asset for the region, and each of our jurisdictions has a major stake in that. And these exercises are funded through this process, and quite frankly, it is good that we are finding these things in the exercises. So I think that as a takeaway it is actually--it did what it was supposed to do. It highlighted where the gaps might be, and we are going to be able to fix them. Senator Akaka. One interesting comment that was made by Mr. Reiskin--and I just want to ask you to expand on that. You used the word ``protocol'' as possibly a problem. Can you explain what you mean by that? Mr. Reiskin. The technology of interoperable communications is fairly well developed, and I think within the region we are fairly advanced in it. But if we do not have agreement and understanding of when an incident happens this is the channel we are going to go to, or we do not have the protocols in place to be able to communicate that information, or if the fleet map on the radios in the District are different than where they are in Arlington and I am not keeping up with their changes, then all the technology in the world will not help us. We need to have those protocols clearly laid out, exercised, and understood. And then we have to maintain the system such that the protocols can be successfully implemented. And, frankly, in exercises we have all the time, we find glitches where somebody has changed a channel on the radio that, if people were going to try to converge on that channel to talk, they would find that they could not. So it takes quite an effort to make sure that the radio systems are maintained and that the protocols are in place. But, fortunately or not, we get a lot of practice in using the cache during major events or radio systems during any kind of mutual aid event. So we have kind of a constant feedback cycle built in to make sure that our protocols are in place such that the technology can be effective. Senator Akaka. Thank you for that. Mr. Chairman, my time has expired. Senator Voinovich. In the testimony you discussed risk assessment. I would suspect that each of you in your own respective jurisdictions have done your own risk assessments. Is that true? Mr. Reiskin. Yes. Senator Voinovich. Mr. Lockwood, are you looking at the whole region and prioritizing according to risks in the region? Mr. Lockwood. One of the outcomes of the EMAP assessment was a shortcoming of the true understanding of the integrated risk, and I believe that was picked up by the GAO testimony. The region has coordinated amongst itself to do a common risk assessment to pull in the various types of risks, whether they be the environmental risks, or all-hazard risks, to get a better understanding of the priorities and potential gaps. That assessment has already started, and we are actively engaged in that task now. Senator Voinovich. Does the Department of Homeland Security have some really good way of measuring this? For example, after the recent risk assessment there was a lot of moaning and groaning that people were not getting the money that they needed. Do you think that the tools that you have to look out there and ascertain the risk is adequate? Are you the one that is doing risk assessment for the region? Are all of you sitting at the table together and developing your own type of assessment based on your experience? How does that work? Mr. Lockwood. We as a community--and what you have heard a number of times today is the word ``partners''--whether that is the public or private partnership that we have, the local government, State, Federal, coming together to write a joint statement of work that we agree with for a risk assessment to be done. Part of my responsibility to the group is to reach out to those within the Department of Homeland Security that are risk experts and to make sure that they actively participate in this effort. For the Department this is truly a regional effort that is bringing in multiple perspectives beyond terrorism but including all hazards. Senator Voinovich. So you are taking advantage of the expertise that is at the Department of Homeland Security and then adding some things based on your own experience? Mr. Lockwood. Right. Senator Voinovich. You are going to have that done when? Mr. Lockwood. What is the timeline? Is it 6 months? Mr. Reiskin. It should be done the end of January 2007, so within about 4 months. Mr. Schrader. Mr. Chairman, could I add something to that? Senator Voinovich. Sure. Mr. Schrader. Let me give you an example of how it really works in a practical way. In Maryland, we have been working on maritime risk. We put a strategic plan together working with our Area Maritime Security Committee, and we have brought that to the group and said we need to be thinking about maritime risk. And people have said, Virginia has got concerns in Norfolk, we have concerns. We then said, we need to get together on this and really integrate these risks. So as a practical matter, it is working, and we need to have our own focused areas. For example, Maryland has a significant stake in the Chesapeake Bay and up through Maryland's Port of Baltimore, the Bentley Port. But until we actually come together and put it on the table, we may not get the benefit. Now we have put it on the table. We are going to be working on that, and those are the kinds of practical things that we are working on together. Senator Voinovich. The Metro system has asked for an authorization of $1.5 billion. Are you familiar with that request? Mr. Griffin. Mr. Chairman, you said a billion and a half? Senator Voinovich. Yes. Mr. Griffin. Yes, that is a request oriented towards maintaining the system so it can continue to handle its current passenger load. Senator Voinovich. You are fairly familiar with it then, Mr. Griffin? Mr. Griffin. Somewhat familiar. Fairfax County is a funding partner. Senator Voinovich. Is a portion of that going to be attributable to dealing with homeland security? Mr. Griffin. No, sir. Senator Voinovich. It is not. It is just strictly to guarantee the system can operate. Mr. Griffin. Maintenance, can continue to operate at the levels it is operating now. Senator Voinovich. Separate and apart from things that you need to do from a technology point of view in terms of threats of terrorism. Mr. Griffin. That is correct. However, as has been noted earlier, WMATA has been working with the CAOs and with the Senior Policy Group to identify critical issues from a security perspective, and where we have had the capacity financially to support that, we have done so. One example related to enhancing communication in the tunnel system. The other priority is having a duplicate or back-up operations center for the Metrorail system, something they have not been able to fund with their normal budgetary allocation. And we are working with them to support that as well. Senator Voinovich. At our last hearing in March, we talked about the tracking of non-Urban Area Security Initiative grants in the region. Could any one of you describe in detail what the region has done to assure the Subcommittee and the people within the NCR that the non-UASI funds that are being spent in the region are being spent in a coordinated, transparent fashion? Mr. Schrader. Yes, let me start with that, Mr. Chairman. In our testimony, we talk about the regional program working groups that we have established, and particularly in the area of training and exercises, critical infrastructure, just to name two, and health and medical. What those groups are tasked with--and let me just be specific; the individual who chairs our critical infrastructure program and the individual who chairs Bob's critical infrastructure, and also Ed's, all work together on this working group, and their charge is to integrate the three programs. So the money we---- Senator Voinovich. So there are many pots of money? Mr. Schrader. Yes. Senator Voinovich. And you are all familiar with the pots of money that each of you have. Mr. Schrader. Absolutely. Senator Voinovich. In each State and the District. Mr. Schrader. Right. In Maryland, we have over $400 million over 5 fiscal years, which includes the central Maryland urban area, health and medical from HHS. So we have a high-level overview. Senator Voinovich. You look at the money so everybody knows where it is and then try to figure out how could it benefit somebody else so you do not have a duplicate situation? Mr. Schrader. I will give you a very specific example around Prince George's County. We have a governance group in Maryland that oversees interoperability. They have an over $60 million initiative in place to put in a 700-mega-hertz system. Governor Ehrlich is investing $10 million a year in building a backbone statewide. We coordinate that, and in coordination with the NCR, we have gotten some additional money, almost $1.8 million from the NCR to contribute to that. So it is all integrated into one project, and with these multiple sources of money that are going toward the project. That is just one example. Senator Voinovich. Senator Akaka. Senator Akaka. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Reiskin, we have heard in previous hearings that the District has extensive evacuation plans in case of emergency in Washington, DC. Earlier this year, the city experienced significant flooding, which shut down the Metro, gridlocked the traffic, and made some parts of the city inaccessible. So my question to you is: Did you exercise any portion of the evacuation plan during the flood? And if so, please specify what actions you took and what you learned from it? Mr. Reiskin. No, we did not exercise or activate any aspect of the evacuation plan because we were not, in fact, trying to evacuate the District or the downtown. However, the management of traffic during that situation--there were some roads that were flooded. There were, I guess, some disruptions on Metro. The management of the traffic during that situation, even though we were not evacuating, did not work as well as it should. We had some coordination issues between our transportation and police departments that should not have happened. And I think we could have done that a lot better. So it was not an issue of the evacuation plan working or not, but there were definitely some fairly easy lessons learned from that that we ensured when Hurricane Ernesto came through, we were prepared to ensure those would not happen again. Senator Akaka. I asked that question just to see whether the evacuation plan could have been applied there. As you said, you did not, and yet I guess it will take some of these disasters that come up for us to try the plan out and see how it works. Mr. Reiskin. If I may, we actually have twice now, on the last two 4ths of July, activated--at least a partial activation of our evacuation plan, and I can tell you that this past July 4 it went a lot better than the first because of the lessons we learned from the first. So that is one way that we can actually test the plan and a way that does not inconvenience people. As a matter of fact, it actually conveniences them because it allows people to get out more quickly. But unless it is our goal to get people out of the city quickly, which is not our goal every day at rush hour and it was not our goal during that flooding, we cannot test the evacuation plan per se. Some of the mechanisms that we need, such as traffic monitoring and deploying intersection control officers, are common to both, and that is where there are learnings from these other kinds of events that will, in fact, enhance our evacuation planning, although we are not activating the plan itself. Senator Akaka. Thank you. Mr. Crouch. Ranking Member Akaka, may I add a response? Senator Akaka. Mr. Crouch. Mr. Crouch. I believe it was mentioned earlier in the testimony that we are currently undertaking a new evacuation study for the region in cooperation with the Department of Homeland Security. We hope that, taken with the risk management study, will help inform our strategies additionally. And I would like to add that while our core focus from the Senior Policy Group perspective is the National Capital Region, we also recognize that what happens here and what we do here in response to events can potentially impact other parts of the country, and certainly the Mid Atlantic Region. Many of us participated earlier in the summer in a conference on evacuation that was held in West Virginia. There were representatives of eight States as well as the District of Columbia at that, including, Mr. Chairman, from the State of Ohio, to discuss issues focused on events in the National Capital Region and how those would impact out into other areas of the Mid Atlantic and West. So I just want to point out that our efforts here in the National Capital Region are not simply limited to Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia, but we are also coordinating and have a very active dialogue with other States. Senator Akaka. Let me just further ask the question that I asked Mr. Reiskin about that flood. Did you, Mr. Schrader, make an effort to see how you would be able to help the District of Columbia during the flooding? Mr. Schrader. Yes, I specifically spoke to Mr. Reiskin during the flood and asked him--because they had declared an emergency. I have his cell phone number, and I called and offered assistance. He indicated that because of the water table here in the District around those areas, often basements would flood and it would cause problems with buildings, but at that point in time they did not need our assistance from Maryland. So we talked as the situation was ongoing. Senator Akaka. The reason I asked about the flood is because it was an unplanned natural disaster as opposed to something that you can see coming, such as a planned or simulated event. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My time has expired. Senator Voinovich. Is there an NCR intelligence network or joint task force? Mr. Crouch. Yes, Mr. Chairman, we have Fusion Centers in both of our States, and as mentioned, now the Unified---- Senator Voinovich. Is that what it is called, a Fusion Center? Mr. Crouch. Yes, sir. Senator Voinovich. It is where all of the local and Federal groups are continuing to get information and sharing it with each other so you have something that is dynamic? Mr. Crouch. Yes, sir. It is an intelligence-gathering and analysis function, and in Virginia, it is led by our Virginia State Police and our Department of Emergency Management as partners with other State agencies, local law enforcement, and Federal agencies. Senator Voinovich. From your perspective, how is it working? Mr. Crouch. Well, the Fusion Center concept is relatively new at the State level. We just stood ours up in Virginia at the beginning of this year. It is working well thus far. As in many other cases, it is an area where we need more resources, more analysts at the State level. We have had a very active dialogue with the Department of Homeland Security and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency regarding those partnerships, and we are hopeful that they will develop. Senator Voinovich. You have one in Virginia and Maryland. Mr. Reiskin, do you have one here in the District? Mr. Reiskin. We are actually in the process of standing up a Fusion Center. We have been working for the last 6 months or so with the Department of Homeland Security and the Washington Field Office of the FBI, and we are fairly close to being there. We have the functions in place. We have analysts in place. We have a very strong working relationship with the FBI through the Joint Terrorism Task Force. But our actual center will be up in the next 6 months. Senator Voinovich. What I think about is that through the intelligence network you find out that something is going to happen and how quickly that information can get to the NCR and trigger that so that you have a response. For example, on September 11, 2001 there was information about a plane still in the air, which was the plane that went down in Pennsylvania. I do not know when we finally got information about the plane, but everybody was evaculated. I will never forget that day as long as I live. But it would be interesting to know how soon did that information get out, and what was done to respond to it. Do these Fusion Centers put you in a much better position than if you had a repeat of that day, you would be able to react to it in a much quicker way? Mr. Reiskin. I would say generally yes, although in some ways there are slightly different issues, both of which we have prioritized within the strategic plan. On the intelligence side, it is often more on prevention and gathering global intelligence, local intelligence, assessing our threats to figure out where we need to focus our resources, what we need to exercise. And as Mr. Schrader mentioned, we are working to link our Fusion Centers, to fuse our Fusion Centers, so that we are part of the network nationwide that goes up to the Federal Government, down to the local governments, to be able to process all that information to be able to prevent things from happening. We have also been working on this alert notification issue, so when there is an emergent event, we can get the information either down from the Feds, up to the Feds, and out to the people who need to know that. That may or may not be a function within the Fusion Center. The emergent threat may go more through our Emergency Operations Center, and those centers, as Mr. Crouch mentioned, are now linked multiple ways, including through the interoperable data systems. Senator Voinovich. A couple times, the NCR airspace has been violated and we were evacuated. With that kind of information, how fast was that information translated to the NCR? And it gets back to your assessment. What are you going to do under those circumstances? I am pleased to know that you are continually exercising your interoperable communications. Mr. Crouch. Mr. Chairman, I would mention, too, that we do have--and this has been funded through the Urban Area Security Initiative funds--in the National Capital Region a system we call the Regional Incident Communications and Coordination System--RICCS is what we refer to it as--and that links all of us as well as folks at the local level in the region and in Federal agencies. Through the pager system and other methods, we get very quick notification of events as they are developing in the National Capital Region. Senator Voinovich. How much have we spent to secure the Capitol complex? I am working on trying to get a dollar figure, and it has been very difficult. Senator Akaka, you might be interested. I am trying to get how much have we really spent on the bollards. There is speculation that the green bollards cost $30,000 apiece. I hope that is not true. Is the District involved at all? We have all these hydraulic barriers that have been built, and we have closed off streets. Does the District have anything to say about it? Mr. Reiskin. The answer is--who is in charge of the security of the Capitol? It is the U.S. Capitol Police, and their jurisdiction is, I believe, statutorily defined and it actually extends beyond the immediate grounds. They report, as you probably know, to a Police Board, which are the Sergeant at Arms of the two Houses, as well as the Architect of the Capitol. And my understanding is that the decisions about bollards and pop-up barriers and the like are generally made by that board. Most of those decisions have happened without consultation with the District, and sometimes in the face of opposition from the District, because while we certainly respect and understand the need to protect these grounds, overprotection can inhibit our ability to respond to events and the needs of the citizens and residents and people who work in the District. That said, we try to work as closely as we can, the Metropolitan Police Department and the U.S. Capitol Police work very closely together because they are obviously---- Senator Voinovich. So you have knowledge of the bollards and street closings before they happen? Or they just go ahead and do it and you find out about it afterwards? Mr. Reiskin. In some cases, the latter has happened. Senator Voinovich. Do you think that communication could be improved? Mr. Reiskin. I think it has improved. It could probably be improved more. But ultimately they have, I believe, statutory authority to do some of these things, and I do not think they need to ask our permission, let alone consult with us. But we work to build relationships on the ground level, the street level. There is very good coordination between the police forces, but the decisions of the Police Board are their decisions, and I think they have the authority to make them unilaterally. Senator Voinovich. Senator Akaka, it might be a good idea that we have a hearing on how the Capitol Police work with the other police in the NCR. I know we had a hearing about 4 or 5 years ago dealing with that issue. There are several police forces that we have here. I think that the recent incident where a man drove into the Capital complex and climbed the steps and was in the Capitol with a firearm makes you ask yourself, really how secure are we? Who is in charge of securing the White House? The Secret Service? Do they have a geographic area where they are in charge of deciding what they are going to do? Mr. Reiskin. Yes, that is correct. And I do not know if theirs is statutorily---- Senator Voinovich. Like Pennsylvania Avenue, right in front of the White House, it is closed off. I wonder how that closing fits in with traffic patterns and moving people in and out of the city. Mr. Reiskin. Right, and that example, we have formally requested the reopening of Pennsylvania Avenue and of E Street. Ultimately, it is Federal property--or it is surrounded by Federal property. And, interestingly, Pennsylvania Avenue right in front of the White House is still District property, although they have closed it off. They own the sidewalks. We own the street. It is a little bit of a complicated situation. But operationally on the ground, I want to assure you that both with the Secret Service and the Capitol Police that our police work very closely with them because anybody who is trying to get in here has to come through the city. So if our police were alerted to something happening, they are in direct communication with the Capitol Police. Senator Voinovich. Thank you. Senator Akaka. Senator Akaka. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I agree with you. I think we need to look into a possible hearing on that. Mr. Schrader, your testimony mentioned the usefulness of Citizen Corps Councils in Maryland. Mr. Schrader. Yes, sir. Senator Akaka. And what interests me is that this expands the parameter beyond government and to the citizenship. Mr. Schrader. Yes, sir. Senator Akaka. The only way for this country to be truly prepared for a disaster is to improve individual citizens' preparedness. Yet I have been concerned that the Citizen Corps program is not utilized or supported as well as it could be. The question is: Based on your experience in Maryland, how can the National Citizens Corps program be improved? And is there anything that Congress or DHS can do to improve Citizens Corps at the Federal level? Mr. Schrader. Well, in Maryland, Governor Ehrlich is very pleased with the Citizen Corps Council. We actually were the first State in the Union to have a Citizen Corps Council in every county in our State, and that was over a year and a half ago. Tomorrow, we are actually having our first statewide Citizen Corps Council at the Maryland Emergency Management Agency, so there is a commercial for tomorrow's conference. And we are reaching out. What really needs to happen is you have to have the emergency directors in the local jurisdictions embracing the Citizen Corps Councils. You have to have the CERT programs, the Citizen Emergency Response Teams, brought into that. And the other thing that needs to happen is you have to have a very clear mission for these folks who are trained because there is a concern, for example, within the professional public safety community that we do not want to train people who are going to suddenly show up at the scene of an incident now because they have gotten a couple days' worth of training. We are also talking to our folks, as you know, Health and Human Services has a requirement for pandemic planning. Our thinking in Maryland is that in the event of a pandemic, you are going to have a situation where you are going to need citizens in local jurisdictions. You are going to need local response capability. So we are trying to weave all this together. We also believe that the community colleges--Governor Ehrlich has put a tremendous amount of money into community colleges in these past 4 years since he has been in office. We believe that is a platform because a lot of what has to happen here is nonresident continuing education for adults. And that is another thing. So we have linked the community colleges also. So there are some techniques. The States are uniquely positioned to drive this. A lot of what is going on at DHS with the Ready.gov program as well as the National Preparedness Month program give us the framework, but it is really fundamentally a State and local responsibility to drive this. And we are having a lot of success, so we think it is a very worthwhile program. Senator Akaka. My question was what can Congress and DHS do on a Federal level, but I understand what you are saying, that primarily it is a State---- Mr. Schrader. I think you have done a lot already. By creating the framework and providing the framework of resources and the program and the national websites and those sorts of things, you have enabled us. The thing about empowerment, you have empowered us to deliver. Empowerment is a two-way street, so it is our job to deliver the results on the emergency management performance grant, and we appreciate the fact that you have empowered us in that way, and we are taking--we have to take the effort to move it ahead. Senator Akaka. Thank you. Mr. Lockwood, a recent Washington Post article reported that DHS allocated additional funding and personnel to the Office of National Capital Region Coordination in recent months. It is my understanding that your office received approximately $30,000 from the avian flu supplemental, which clearly would be insufficient to fund any additional staff. So I have two questions for you. One, what was the avian flu funding used for? And did your office receive any funding or personnel in addition to that $30,000? Mr. Lockwood. Yes, sir. As discussed by Director Schrader, what we try to do is collaboratively pool our resources. The $30,000 resources for avian influenza is going to support the credentialing, the identity management capabilities of first responders, in particular the health care community. That is leveraging some of the other work that we are doing on identity management and credentialing of first responders to the health community. With regard to other resources, I understand that there are resources available through the chief medical officer's shop. We will coordinate that with our State and local partners through ESS 8 and 6 for prioritization of those and, again, the strategic plan will provide part of that framework. Senator Akaka. Did you receive any personnel assistance as well in this? Mr. Lockwood. Again, currently this year we have three full-time positions assigned to the office. We have had several detailees that have come to the office from TSA, and the Department of Defense again, Joint Forces Headquarters, National Capital Region. General Swan has been a great partner, again, trying to make this coordination between homeland security and homeland defense more seamless. We have been actively leveraging and working with the general. Senator Akaka. Mr. Lockwood, the budget for your office will increase over 100 percent next year. How will those additional funds be used? Do you have an idea? Mr. Lockwood. Yes, sir. Right now there are a number of coordinating bodies that we cannot devote full-time personnel to, in particular both with the fire, law enforcement, emergency management communities. In some cases, we sit in the coordinating meetings by exception rather than as a matter of process, which we believe we should. Those resources will ensure that we are coordinating there. Another piece that you have heard today is the discussion with regard to protocols. Part of the effort needs to be coordinated protocols, and you will see within the strategic plan that some of these resources will be applied for the coordination and maturation of protocols. Senator Akaka. Let me, Mr. Chairman, just finally, since I am on the subject of funding, ask Mr. Griffin: What percentage of the homeland security funding spent in the NCR comes from non-Federal, that is, State or local funds? Mr. Griffin. Senator, I do not have a precise number, but my estimate is that in excess of 90 percent, probably closer to 95 percent of all funding spent on homeland security in the National Capital Region comes from State or local resources, with the vast majority of that actually coming from local resources. Senator Akaka. Thank you very much, Mr. Griffin. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Senator Voinovich. Thank you. Senator Akaka, I just received an alert, and we get these all the time, about strange substances and stay away from certain areas. I do not think that the people in our respective States or the District fully appreciate the amount of money that we are putting into securing the homeland. You have to wonder how we can pay for all of it. I had an analysis done that said, if we are going to try to balance up the money that we are spending on homeland security and the war, we would have to cut the domestic nondiscretionary budget by 30 percent. I suspect in each and every one of your cases, Mr. Lockwood, that you could use more money. I know there are a lot of areas in Homeland Security. But I just think that we need to do a better job of communicating to the public how serious this is. You take State budgets. I would be interested in knowing how much more money States are absorbing to pay for homeland security. Are there things that you have given up that you should be doing, but you are not doing because you are putting the money into the NCR? I really think it is important that we do a better job of letting people know. This is very serious business, and it is costing a whole lot of money. We talk about securing the border, and the reason why we have got a problem with the border is we did not spend the money in the first place to secure the border. Now we have a problem, and now we are going to spend the money. But it is going to be very costly. All of this spending keeps adding up and adding up. I will never forget that day when--I do not know whether you were in the Hart Building or not, Senator Akaka, when we had to evacuate. I remember coming back and I had heard about the Twin Towers going down, and then seeing on television there was a short building, and I said, ``That cannot be New York.'' And my staff said, ``No. That is the Pentagon.'' And the next thing we know, I was out of here. I was so angry, I said, ``I am not going. I am not going to let them, those terrorists, intimidate me.'' And my chief of staff almost picked me up and said, ``You are going out of here. If I do not get you out of here, somebody else is going to get you out of here.'' I do not know if you get mad about it or not, but Osama bin Laden has really wrought unbelievable change in this country. Somehow we have to figure out how to deal with it, and I just wonder if we are ever going to have it off our back. I think about my seven grandchildren. Senator Akaka has a lot more than that. But you wonder when will this ever be off their back? How far do we go to secure the homeland without bankrupting the country? It is a very frustrating time for all of us. I want to thank all of you for the good work that you are doing. It is very comforting to me to know that you are working with each other and trying to get the job done. It is not easy, and we will do what we can to be supportive of your efforts. If something comes up where you think we can be of help to you, I certainly want you to know to please contact us. Thanks again for being here. Senator Akaka. Mr. Chairman, may I ask one more question? Senator Voinovich. Sure. Senator Akaka. And this is for all of the witnesses representing the NCR. As you know, the NCR received an unexpected 40-percent cut in UASI funding this year. So my question to you is: How will this cut impact the timeline we are talking about for planned initiatives laid out in the strategic plan? Your answer does not have to be long. Mr. Crouch. I will take the first cut at that, Ranking Member Akaka. We talked about improving our data interoperability, and essentially it slows the process. We will accomplish our goals, but it pushes them out a couple of years farther than we would want. And part of the importance of that is that these are tools not just to address potential terrorist acts, but our approach is an all-hazards approach. So they are tools that are useful for our law enforcement and first responders day to day, every day and night as they serve the needs of the people in the National Capital Region communities. Senator Akaka. I guess you all agree with that. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Senator Voinovich. Thank you, Senator Akaka. 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