Dirty Bomb Vulnerabilities: Fake Companies, Fake Licenses, Real Consequences

Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations

Thursday, July 12, 2007
09:00 AM

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The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has scheduled a hearing, "Dirty Bomb Vulnerabilities: Fake Companies, Fake Licenses, Real Consequences," for Thursday, July 12th at 9:00 a.m. in Room 342 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

The Subcommittee’s hearing will examine certain vulnerabilities in the government’s procedures for licensing radiological materials. This hearing builds upon the findings released at the Subcommittee’s hearing on March 28, 2006, which examined certain flaws in U.S. safeguards against radiological and nuclear attacks. Specifically, the hearing will examine the effectiveness of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s materials licensing policies and procedures, including: (1) the process by which parties obtain NRC materials licenses; and (2) the vulnerability of NRC materials licenses to counterfeiting.

Witnesses

Panel 1

• MR. EUGENE E. ALOISE [view testimony]
  Director, Nuclear & Nonproliferation Issues, Natural Resources and Environment
  Government Accountability Office
• MR. GREGORY D. KUTZ [view testimony]
  Managing Director, Forensic Audits and Special Investigations Unit
  U. S. Government Accountability Office
• MR. JOHN W. COONEY [view testimony]
  Assistant Director, Forensic Audits and Special Investigations, Financial Management and Assurance
  Government Accountability Office

Panel 2

• THE HONORABLE EDWARD McGAFFIGAN, JR. [view testimony]
  Commissioner
  Nuclear Regulatory Commission