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Article #1019Re: Why was the cost of FEMA in the aftermath of the Columbia shuttle "disaster" $25B plus?
From: Andrew Gray
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:18
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:18
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In article <slrnbojbcp.rkp.dsf@gaia.roc2.gblx.net>, Dan Foster wrote: >> >> I'd like to see a verifiable reference for your $25B figure. If you mean >> "billion", that sounds about two orders of magnitude too high. > > I can't find it now, but yeah, was a recent article (Perhaps from the > Houston Chronicle?) where it stated that the expected cost to FEMA for the > manpower-intensive search across the states for months was in the > neighborhood of about $200 to $250 million, and could be higher if more > information is tallied and additional requests from the states submitted. CAIB Report, Vol. I, pp 47: "The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which directed the overall [debris recovery] effort, expended more than $305 million to fund the search. This cost does not include what NASA spent on aircraft support or the wages of hundreds of civil servants employed at the recovery area and in analysis roles at NASA centers." $25 billion, at a guess, is closer to the cost of the program since Challenger than the cost to clean up after Columbia. The FY 2003 budget for FEMA is $6.4bn, in fact... -- -Andrew Gray shimgray@bigfoot.com
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 101acf,c2a5717804a609ed X-Google-Attributes: gid101acf,public X-Google-Thread: 1141a2,c2a5717804a609ed X-Google-Attributes: gid1141a2,public X-Google-Thread: 101049,c2a5717804a609ed X-Google-Attributes: gid101049,public X-Google-Thread: 10a148,c2a5717804a609ed X-Google-Attributes: gid10a148,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-10-12 14:18:14 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news2.google.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!bylands.dur.ac.UK!not-for-mail From: Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk> Newsgroups: triangle.general,sci.space.shuttle,alt.politics,dc.general Subject: Re: Why was the cost of FEMA in the aftermath of the Columbia shuttle "disaster" $25B plus? Followup-To: sci.space.shuttle Date: 12 Oct 2003 21:18:12 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: <slrnbojh4s.km9.andrew.gray@compsoc.dur.ac.uk> References: <755eff52.0310121056.49b67194@posting.google.com> <Xns9412909F9DD4jrfrank@216.39.221.8> <slrnbojbcp.rkp.dsf@gaia.roc2.gblx.net> Reply-To: andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk NNTP-Posting-Host: bylands.dur.ac.uk (129.234.200.100) X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1065993492 22019652 129.234.200.100 (16 [204048]) User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.4 (Linux)