MEDIA ADVISORY: Camp Lejeune Congressional hearings this Tuesday (DC, NC)

NEWS RELEASE

Committee on Energy and Commerce

Rep. John D. Dingell, Chairman

For planning purposes: June 8, 2007

Contact: Jodi Seth 202-225-5735

MEDIA ADVISORY:

Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Hearing on Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune

The Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will hold a hearing
on Tuesday, June 12, 2007, at 10:00 a.m. in room 2322 Rayburn House
Office Building. The hearing is entitled Poisoned Patriots:
Contaminated Drinking Water at Camp Lejeune.

The purpose of this hearing is to examine issues arising from the
extensive, high-level contamination of drinking water at U.S. Marine
Corps Base Camp Lejeune. This is the first of a series of hearings the
Subcommittee plans to hold on environmental problems at Department of
Defense (DOD) facilities.

The hearing will include testimony from former Marine Corps residents
of Camp Lejeune who, along with their families, drank the contaminated
water, cooked their food in it, and bathed in it. The Subcommittee
will also receive testimony from the Government agencies involved in
dealing with the contamination, assessing the adverse health effects,
and investigating allegations of criminal violations of Federal law,
including the Marine Corps, the Department of the Navy, ATSDR, the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and the Government
Accountability Office (GAO).

WITNESS LIST

Panel I

Mr. Jerome Ensminger

North Carolina

Dr. Mike Gros

Texas

Mr. Jeff Byron

Ohio

Panel II

United States Marine Corps

Major General Robert C. Dickerson, Jr.

Commanding General

Accompanied by Ms. Kelly A. Dreyer

Environmental Restoration Program Manager

United States Navy

Ms. Pat Leonard
Director

Office of The Judge Advocate General

Claims, Investigations, & Tort Litigation (Code 15)

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

Department of Health and Human Services

Thomas Sinks, Ph.D.

Deputy Director

National Center for Environmental Health/ATSDR

Accompanied by Frank Bove, Sc.D.

Senior Epidimiologist

and

Morris Maslia, P.E.

Environmental Engineer

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