[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 948 Engrossed in House (EH)]








H. Res. 948

                In the House of Representatives, U. S.,

                                                    September 26, 2006.
Whereas, during Hurricane Katrina, some 3,700 persons (including employees, 
        their immediate and extended families, and members of the general 
        public), sought shelter at the Stennis Space Center;
Whereas the Stennis cafeteria, which normally serves about 175 breakfasts and 
        600 lunches each day, served 3,000 meals 3 times a day to evacuees, for 
        a period of a week following the storm;
Whereas before, during, and in the immediate aftermath of the storm, the small 
        staff of the Stennis Medical Clinic provided medical care to all who 
        needed it among the evacuees onsite, including some 20 special needs 
        patients, and soon after the storm, the Stennis clinic staff was 
        complemented by medical personnel airlifted from other National 
        Aeronautics and Space Administration Centers;
Whereas, although commercial electrical power was not available to Stennis for 
        10 days following the storm, electrical power was maintained to all 
        essential buildings through the extensive use of diesel-powered 
        generators and the around the clock efforts of a team of individuals who 
        mechanically maintained those generators and kept them fueled, also 
        enabling the pumps on Stennis' deep-water wells to provide a continuous 
        supply of potable water for drinking, cooking, and sanitation to support 
        the 3,700 people onsite;
Whereas a team of employees in the Stennis rocket propulsion test complex 
        protected the health of all test infrastructure, employing innovative 
        methods to ensure an uninterrupted supply of purge gases to all required 
        facility infrastructure and test hardware, failure of which would have 
        resulted in untold millions of dollars of new costs to clean, purge, and 
        recertify these facilities for Space Shuttle Main Engine and other 
        propulsion system testing;
Whereas for 10 days following the storm, logistical support (including food, 
        water, medical supplies, and personnel exchange) of the National 
        Aeronautics and Space Administration Michoud Assembly Facility in New 
        Orleans was provided via helicopters operating from the Stennis Space 
        Center, along with helicopters, and flight crew and security personnel, 
        from the Marshall Space Flight and Kennedy Space Centers; and
Whereas, immediately following the storm, Stennis Space Center facilitated the 
        use of its property as the site of the Federal Emergency Management 
        Agency's Incident Command Center serving a 6-county area along the 
        Mississippi Gulf Coast, and Stennis served as the central distribution 
        hub for disaster response supplies to those same counties, including, 
        during the nearly 2-months of Federal Emergency Management Agency relief 
        operations at Stennis, distributing more than 7,600,000 gallons of 
        water, 41,000,000 pounds of ice, and 3,500,000 MREs (meals-ready-to-eat) 
        to devastated areas via the Stennis Space Center hub: Now, therefore, be 
        it
    Resolved,  That the House of Representatives commends the dedication of the 
employees who stayed behind at the National Aeronautics and Space 
Administration's Stennis Space Center, who, during and after Hurricane Katrina's 
assault on Mississippi, provided shelter and medical care to storm evacuees and 
logistical support for storm recovery efforts, while effectively maintaining 
critical facilities at the Center, including Cheryl Bennett, James Bevis, Terry 
Bordelon, Steve Brettel, Vicki Brown, Bill Brumfield, Kirt Bush, Paul Byrd, 
Ethan Calder, Marla Carpenter, David Carstens, Jonathan Clemens, Eric Crawford, 
Cheri Cuevas, John Davenport, David Del Santo, Isaac DeLancey, Jim Freeman, Greg 
Garrett, Dave Geiger, Stan Gill, Don Griffith, Haynes Haselmaier, Coby Holloway, 
Gay Irby, Manning ``JJ'' Jones, Catriona Ladner, David Ladner, Richard Ladner, 
Stanley Lee, Michelle Logan, Ron Magee, Sharlene Majors, Steve McCord, Pat 
McCullough, Michael McDaniel, Mike McKinion, Kirk Miller, John Mitchell, Ron 
Moore, David R. Oakes, Kevin A. Oliver, Alan Phillips, John Nick Pitalo, Allen 
Price, Porter Pryor, Margaret Roberts, Miguel Rodriguez, Jason Saucier, Dale 
Sewell, Donald Seymore, Kathy Slade, Sue Smith, David Throckmorton, Karen 
Vander, John Waquespack, Rodney Wilkinson, Robert Williams, and Michael J. Witt.
            Attest:

                                                                          Clerk.