on the interest in hearing about the status of those advances and learn from our witnesses whether the fire at patrician training courses are in fact meeting the expanded needs of today s fire service. i also interested in hearing about the current state of the five-year related research and the emerging research areas and how the fire administration is contributing to these efforts. i would also like to learn more about how the fire administration prioritizes its research and investment and how it coordinates the research activities with other federal entities engaged in a fire related research including the national institute for standards and technologies and the science of technology directorate within the department of homeland security. more importantly, however, i am interested in hearing recommendations or suggestions of what of to be included in the next administration reauthorization bill. as you are aware of the current authorizations that have expired in just over
all of them have to be b prepared too, so it s not just ultimately the states that have issues. mr. kennedy, in your testimony that with respect to contingency planning, is well underway in hawaii and washington, that the process is yet to start in oregon and california and alaska. how long does that process in planning require zm. what it requires is a complete willingness of all of the appropriate parties. you ve got to have everybody to want to be at the table to actually put the workshop together and develop it. so there have been various states of interest and that s why these others are still evolving. what we have been able to do is kind of develop now a pretty standard protocall for the basis. it includes everything from g getting together to talk about within a region, who are the federal and state and local entities that need to be engaged. who would you call if you started to have debris. how are we going to look and make sure we have radiation under control. i