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mental monitoring capability. It was most recently deployed at the 

 Kuwait fires to try to understand and characterize the worldwide 

 significance of that event. We have very well equipped chemical 

 laboratories at the marine sciences laboratory at Sequim as well. 

 PNL has a large cadre of health physicists and nuclear engineering 

 capabilities that we have brought to bear on a wide range of nu- 

 clear and reactor-related situations for both the Department of En- 

 ergy, the Utilities, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 



We have the responsibility for the monitoring and oversight of 

 the Hanford Reservation in Hanford, Washington. We have also the 

 responsibility for the development of the technology associated with 

 the decontamination and decommissioning of the excess nuclear fa- 

 cihties that are also related at Hanford. All of this capability has 

 direct application to this effort. 



I have eliminated most all of the prepared presentation, Mr. 

 Chairman, that I have. So I would like to get to the very bottom 

 line of the issue. 



Senator Murkowski. We'll take your testimony for the record. 



[The prepared statement of Dr. Shipp follows:] 



