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Hearings and Business Meetings Water and Power Subcommittee Hearing to Examine the Federal and Non Federal Role of Assessing Cyber Threats to and Vulnerabilities of Critical Water Infrastructure in our Energy...examine the federal and non federal role of assessing cyber threats to and vulnerabilities of critical water infrastructure in our energy sector The hearing will be webcast live on the Committee s website and...with our player Opening Remarks Sen Ron Wyden Chair Subcommittee on Water and Power Sen James E Risch Ranking Member Subcommittee on Water and Power Witness Panel 1 Mr Terry Turpin Director Office of Energy...

require industry to design facilities to Category 5 storm criteria MMS also requires annual above water structural inspections of all OCS platforms and periodic underwater structural surveys We established...Ivan we focused on five principal areas First MMS concluded that the basic design standards for deep water floating production systems seem adequate We had no floating production facility failures Second MMS...that many facilities could come back on line in days and weeks rather than months Many of the deep water high output facilities appear to have survived with minimal damage A different scenario is playing...

scattered throughout Isle Royale National Park give clear indication of the traffic and danger the waters of Lake Superior posed to sailing vessels throughout history The area was a base for a thriving commercial...museum artifacts Cultural landscapes highlight the maritime and agricultural resources of the area The waters of Lake Michigan have played a key role in the settlement of the state There are indoor and outside...along the coastline the oldest ones being over 180 years old And Michigan established the first fresh water marine sanctuary in the Great Lakes area the Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary and Underwater...

marked recently by stability and certainty Russia Venezuela and Nigeria for example ETES pp 1 2 Deep water drilling and other opportunities for increases in supply of conventional oil may provide important...period of increased output from 2006 2015 largely as a result of additionalproduction from the deep water of the Gulf of Mexico domestic crude oil production is expectedto resume its gradual decline And with...