In this past week, the House Veterans
Affairs Committee contact I have been working
with issued an email request to have me
send a memo on the top 3 priorities to
be accomplished in the much anticipated
investigative study report to be done
on the Fort McClellan Veterans contamination
issue. This was delivered to them
last week in a 9 page memo.

The announcement on Phase 1 of the Fort
McClellan legislation is NOT dependent
on the outcome of this GAO report, but
it will effect Phase 2 or 3 of the legislation
later on down the road. So we are
setting it into motion right now so
that GAO has the time they need to
get to it on their backlog list.

This GAO report is not really necessary
given the newly found Fort McClellan files
there were found recently at the National
Archives. But it WILL, for sure, help
our legislative pursuits to go ahead
and have this done by an independent
reviewing agency. Congress just plain
feels better to have GAO involved, and
we are fine with that.