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COMMITTEE ON GROUND FAILURE HAZARDS MITIGATION RESEARCH DAVID B. PRIOR (Chairman), Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge GENEVIEVE ATWOOD, Atwood & Mabey Incorporated, Salt Lake City, Utah DAVID S. BROOKSHIRE, University of Wyoming, Laramie RHEA L. GRAHAM, Consultant, Placitas, New Mexico A. G. KEENE, Department of Public Works, Los Angeles, California F. BEACH LEIGHTON, Leighton & Associates, Inc., Irvine, CaTiforni GEORGE G. MADER, William Spangle & Associates, Portola Valley, California H. CRANE MILLER, Attorney, Washington, D.C. WILLIAM I. PETAK, University of Southern California, Los Angeles DWIGHT A. SANGREY, Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology, Beaverton ROBERT L. SCHUSTER, U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, Colorado JAMES E. SLOSSON, Slosson & Associates, Van Nuys, California DONALD R. SNETHEN, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater DOUGLAS N. SWANSTON, Forest Service, U.S. Deparunent of Agriculture, Juneau, Alaska BARRY VOIGHT, Pennsylvania State University, University Park Liaison Representatives N. B. BENNETT III, Division of Geology, Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colorado LEON L. BERATAN (retired), Office of Nuclear Regulatory Research, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C. C. Y. CHEN, (formerly) Office of Surface Mining, Washington, D.C. ROBERT A. CUMMINGS, Society of Mining Engineers, Engineers Intemational, Inc., Tucson, Arizona DONALD G. FOHS, Construction Maintenance and Environmental Design Division, Federal Highway Administration, McLean, Virginia ROBERT P. HARTLEY, Solid and Hazardous Waste Research Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Cincinnati, Ohio DARRELL G. HERD, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, Virginia THOMAS L. HOLZER, Geological Society of America, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California BENJAMIN I. KELLY, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, D.C. LOUIS KIRKALDIE, Soil Conservation Service, Washington, D.C. PAUL KRUMPE, Office of Foreign Disaster Assi.~tance A~enov for Intematinna1 Development, Washington, D.C. O ., ADRIAN PELZNER, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. J. E. SABADELL, Division of Biological and Critical Systems, National Science Foundation, Washington, D.C. CHI-SHING WANG, Division of Health and Safety Technology, Bureau of Mines, Washington, D.C. DAVIS E. WHITE, Manufactured Housing and Construction Standards Division, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C. MICHAEL YACHNIS (retired), Facilities Engineering Command, U.S. Department of the Navy, Alexandria, Virginia ARTHUR I. ZEIZEL, Office of Natural and Technological Hazards, Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, D.C. ., . l l

Stem RILEY M. CHUNG, Director ABE BERNSTEIN, former Senior Staff Officer PATRICIA T. GREEN, Research Aide EDWARD LIPP, Editor SUSAN R. McCUTCHEN, Administrative Assistant SHIRLEY I. WHITLEY, Project Assistant . 1V

PANEL ON LAND SUBSIDENCE THOMAS L. HOLZER (Chairman), U.S. Geological Survey, MenIo Park, California CHRISTOPHER B. AMANDES, Hanson and Elkins, Houston, Texas DAVID S. BROOKSHIRE, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque BARBARA I. EVANS, Transcontinental Gas and Pipeline, Houston, Texas ARTHUR H. FAWCE11, Consultant in Urban and Regional Planning, Washington, D.C. RICHARD E. GRAY, GAI Consultants, Inc., Monroeville, Pennsylvania PHILIP E. LaMOREAUX, P.E. LaMoreaux and Associates, Tuscaloosa, Alabama DAVID MANEVAL, University of Alaska, Fairbanks H. CRANE MILLER, Attomey, Washington, D.C. THOMAS F. MOSLOW, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada JOHN C. STEPHENS, Consultant in Organic Soils, Fort Lauderdale, Florida v

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