[Roccus]

FEMA spokesman Dan Stoneking told the AP. "We believe in adhering to any relevant environmental rule or law and will do so."

I wonder how he feels about USS Arizona?

[Western Phil]

Thanks for the post. This is quite interesting to me. There is much I can relate to.

In the late 80s, early 90s we worked with FEMA to provide a degree of EMP protection to Emergency Broadcast Stations (EBSs) and Emergency Operating Centers (EOCs). FEMA did not have the funds to provide a military type of hardening, so they relied heavily on surge protection technology. This program died as part of the “Peace Dividend”.

We also had an SBIR (Small Business Innovative Research) program to develop an instrument for finding lost underground storage tanks (LUSTS). Geophex built what can be described as a kind of mapping metal detector which I used for field work in some the Chicago parks on the lake front which had been Nike anti aircraft missile sites. Found a number of clear suspects, but do not know if anything ever done with them.

Geophex later contracted with the United Nations weapons inspectors for geophysical surveys in Iraq in around 1997 to 98. They found all sorts of interesting things using the instrument they developed for us. This included significant quantities of Saddam’s atomic weapon program on pallets, wrapped in plastic, buried in the desert.