Memorandum of meeting with community representatives regarding the recommendation for Naval Support Activity New Orleans.

Memorandum of meeting with Naval Support Activity New Orleans, LA representatives.

This report discusses federal evacuation policy and analyzes potential lessons learned from the evacuation of individuals from Hurricane Katrina. Several issue areas that might arise concerning potential lawmaking and oversight on evacuation policy are also highlighted. This report will be updated as significant legislative or administrative changes occur.

Interview with Jerell E. Crow. He entered the Coast Guard in 1940 and trained in Florida and New York City. He served aboard a Landing Ship, Tank (LST) when those ships were first introduced. He traveled to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to the Neville Island Shipyard operated by the Dravo Corporation as part of a crew that brought an LST down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. From there, the crew practiced operations at Biloxi, Mississippi. Eventually, Crow travelled to San Diego aboard the LST through the Panama Canal. From there, he went to Guadalcanal and unloaded tanks. Eventually, his ship was hit at Saipan and he was wounded. He also served aboard an LST during the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Afterwards, Crow's LST was present in Tokyo Bay for the surrender. He visited Hiroshima while on occupation duty after the atomic bomb was dropped. Eventually, his LST made its way back to San Francisco where he was discharged.

Interview with Hazael R. Olivares, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. Olivares dropped out of high school and decided to join the U. S. Navy after hearing about the attack on Pearl Harbor. He took his 16-week basic training course at Great Lakes in Illinois where he learned how to fire various guns and recognize aircraft. After basic training, he was assigned to Algiers, Louisiana where he learned how to weld. Aboard the USS Bordelon (DD-881), he served as a Ship Fitter in the damage control department. After WWII, he remained in the reserves and was called up for duty in Korea. He served aboard the USS Sitkoh Bay (CVE-86). After Korea, he worked as a civilian for the Army Corps of Engineers as an oiler on a dredge. He then served in the Merchant Marines, hauling refined petroleum products from South America to North America. He also discusses going to French Indochina (Vietnam) and traveling up the Saigon River in a merchant vessel.

Typed letter from Dan to Sterling Houston. He writes thanking him for sending Le Griffon, a novella by Houston which apparently contains controversial undertones. Dan hopes to see Houston and the show in the future.

This report examines selected issues of the federal government's liability depending on the theory of the levee failures in New Orleans, and analyzes legal defense available to the federal government.

This report discusses the following: Medicaid’s rules on eligibility, benefits, and financing in the context of current questions and issues raised by Hurricane Katrina. Recent state actions in response to Medicaid issues raised by the hurricane. Federal Medicaid waiver authority, including information on current activity in this area and the New York Disaster Relief Medicaid waiver granted in response to the September 11 terrorist attacks. Current federal legislation related to Medicaid and Hurricane Katrina relief efforts.

Interview with Ruth Simons (Kerr) Ray, the great-great granddaughter of James Kerr, from Canyon Lake, Texas. Mrs. Ray discusses her ancestor's life and his history in the Hill Country, as well as the Historical Marker Dedication Ceremony at the Kerr County Courthouse.

This report is about the observations of deepwater in the Gulf of Mexico.

This report is about the study of interactions of the Gulf of Mexico eddies with topography and the dynamical of submarine canyons in the Gulf of Mexico.

This report is about offshore oil and gas structures in the Gulf of Mexico.

This report is about bringing together new and recent research.

This report is about the study of subsurface high-speed current jets in the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico.

This report is about the Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Study.

This survey report discusses deepwater projects centered in the Gulf Coast. Their study is interested in vendors or contractors supplying the equipment used on the deck and process in extracting oil. The authors are also interested in the socioeconomic effects of the oil extracting on local communities.

This report is about the deepwater observations in the Northern Gulf of Mexico.

This report summary describes the objective of the research is to examine how offshore structures producing and processing hydrocarbons are removed from the Gulf of Mexico. Using this research, they developed a model to forecast the removal of offshore structures.

This report is about the exploration of the possibility that the deep flow around the edges of the Gulf circulates in a cyclonic, or counter-clockwise direction. The existence of this flow was purely theoretical but this study shows that such is observed reliably.

This report is to formalize the REA/MMS forecast models used in the Gulf Coast. With these models they forecast GOM infrastructure like number of exploratory wells and number of development wells.

Interview with Warren Lee Miller, a communications expert for the US Coast Guard in the Vietnam War. He answers questions about joining the military and life in the Port of New Orleans.

Interview with Warren Lee Miller, a communications expert for the US Coast Guard in the Vietnam War. He answers questions about joining the military and life in the Port of New Orleans.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC 5 television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC 5 television station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story.