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Administration announces plan for expanded tsunami warning system
Bush administration officials on Friday announced plans for an expansion of the U.S. tsunami detection and warning capabilities.
The plan, which will cost $37.5 million over the next two years, "will enable enhanced monitoring, detection, warning and communications," Bush science adviser John Marburger said in a statement.
The initial investment is to deploy 32 advanced technology buoys so the system can be fully operational by 2007.
House Science Committee Chairman Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., said he was "especially pleased [with] efforts to increase education and outreach." Bart Gordon of Tennessee, the committee's ranking Democrat, however, said that "a truly comprehensive system should be about more than technical hardware.
Democratic Sen. Joseph Liebermann, D-Conn., praised the administration's effort and said legislation he plans to introduce calls for including the international community in the effort. And Rep. Vernon Ehlers, R-Mich., pledged to secure financial support for the plan.
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- Why should the USA pay for a warning system that is activated once every hundred years when we continue to send our jobs to China, India and the rest of Asia? Maybe Congress should represent the American people that they are supposed to represent and use the money to "fix" social security and health care. The least they could do is rebuild the bridges in the USA because we still have truck traffic to haul goods back and forth across the county-even if the goods in the trucks are from Asia! At least the truck drivers are from the USA! taxpayer Posted January 18, 2005 7:14 AM
