PRINTER'S NO. 3182

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE RESOLUTION

No. 402 Session of 2002

        INTRODUCED BY GORDNER, HASAY, MICHLOVIC, ALLEN, ARGALL,
           ARMSTRONG, M. BAKER, BARRAR, BASTIAN, CAPPELLI, CIVERA,
           CORRIGAN, CREIGHTON, DAILEY, DeLUCA, DeWEESE, J. EVANS,
           GEORGE, FEESE, FICHTER, HARHAI, HORSEY, HUTCHINSON, JAMES,
           KELLER, LAUGHLIN, LEDERER, LESCOVITZ, LEWIS, LUCYK, MAYERNIK,
           S. MILLER, NAILOR, PICKETT, PIPPY, ROBERTS, ROSS, RUBLEY,
           SATHER, SAYLOR, SCRIMENTI, SHANER, B. SMITH, SOLOBAY,
           STABACK, STERN, R. STEVENSON, STURLA, SURRA, E. Z. TAYLOR,
           TIGUE, TURZAI, WATSON, WOJNAROSKI, G. WRIGHT, YOUNGBLOOD AND
           YUDICHAK, JANUARY 28, 2002

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON RULES, JANUARY 28, 2002

                                  A RESOLUTION

     1  Memorializing the President of the United States to federally
     2     activate National Guard troops to provide security at nuclear
     3     power plants.

     4     WHEREAS, The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the
     5  World Trade Center in New York City, the Pentagon in Washington,
     6  DC, and the plane crash in Somerset County, Pennsylvania,
     7  clearly demonstrate that neither the United States nor the
     8  Commonwealth is immune from orchestrated acts of terrorism; and
     9     WHEREAS, Terrorist attacks on nuclear power plant facilities
    10  can incapacitate or destroy critical utility infrastructure
    11  systems and pose a dire threat to the health, safety and welfare
    12  of the citizens of this Commonwealth; and
    13     WHEREAS, The protection of these nuclear power plant
    14  facilities is necessarily a shared responsibility and

     1  partnership between owners, operators and the Federal and State
     2  Government; and
     3     WHEREAS, The President of the United States has already
     4  federalized National Guard troops to provide security at
     5  airports across the United States under the provisions of 32
     6  U.S.C.; therefore be it
     7     RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the
     8  Commonwealth of Pennsylvania strongly encourage the President of
     9  the United States to federally activate National Guard troops to
    10  provide security at nuclear power plant facilities across the
    11  nation under the provisions of 32 U.S.C.; and be it further
    12     RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to
    13  the President of the United States, to the presiding officers of
    14  each house of Congress, to each member of Congress from
    15  Pennsylvania and to the Director of the Office of Homeland
    16  Security.










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