[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 120 (Tuesday, August 2, 2011)]
[Senate]
[Page S5241]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




            COLD REGIONS RESEARCH AND ENGINEERING LABORATORY

  Mrs. SHAHEEN. Mr. President, I rise today to recognize the 50th 
anniversary of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research and 
Development Center's Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, 
CRREL. For half of a century, the men and women at CRREL have provided 
outstanding service to our military, our Nation, and our friends and 
allies around the world by advancing science and engineering and 
applying these disciplines to complex environments, materials, and 
processes in all seasons and climates.
  CRREL's mission dates back to 1867, when the U.S. Army Corps of 
Engineers first began exploration and development of the newly acquired 
Alaskan territory. Formally established in 1961 under Army General 
Order No. 3, CRREL merged the Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research 
Establishment with the Arctic Construction and Frost Effects 
Laboratories, and continues to serve as one of seven laboratories under 
the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers' Engineer Research and Development 
Center, ERDC.
  To complement its dedicated staff, CRREL operates some of the most 
advanced and unique research facilities in the world. At its 
headquarters in Hanover, NH, my home State, CRREL operates the 73,000 
square foot Ice Engineering Facility, the 27,000 square foot Frost 
Effects Research Facility, as well as 24 separate low-temperature 
research cold rooms, capable of reaching temperatures down to 
-35 deg.C. Other CRREL facilities include the Corps of Engineers' 
Remote Sensing/Geographic Information Systems Center of Expertise, the 
Cold Regions Science and Technology Information Analysis Center, as 
well as a permafrost research tunnel and 133 acre permafrost research 
center, both located in Alaska.
  As part of the ERDC, CRREL's distinguished service record includes 
being recognized as the Army's top research and development laboratory 
5 of the last 8 years and the last 3 consecutive years, a feat 
unmatched by any other Army laboratory. CRREL's scientists, engineers 
and staff continue the critical research that ensures that the men and 
women of our Armed Forces are the most capable and well prepared in the 
world.
  I along with the entire State of New Hampshire would like to 
congratulate and honor the scientists, engineers and staff of CRREL for 
their honorable service to the Army, our Nation and our State. I ask my 
colleagues to join me in celebrating CRREL's 50 years of success and 
wishing them well as they work toward another 50 years of innovation 
and service.

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