I'm Brian Slie. I'm with FEMA Region 6, Project Specialist. FEMA's here at Fort Travis on the Bolivar Peninsula due to the damages that occurred as a result of Hurricane Ike. Hurricane Ike came in of course with a high storm surge across Bolivar up to 18 to 20 feet in areas. What we're looking at here is near 3,800 feet of promenade and walkway with a brick lane that was damaged by storm surge, hydro-compaction. We had subsidance of the ground supporting these structures here at this facility. We also have road issues that we have to replace gravel on the roads and road base. We have culverts that were damaged, we have debris issues within the bunkers here that will require addressing, clean up. The history here is deep and it is rich, it's something that Texans can be proud of to know that they can go back close to 200 years and know that this is where their state got its start and also the defense of the United States of America got its start in this area.

My name is Ashley Bechtold. I'm a Historic Preservation Specialist with FEMA and I review projects for Section 106 compliance of the National Historic Preservation Act. Basically the Section 106 process was enacted so federal agencies can take into account the effects that their projects have on historic properties so we make sure that everything that was historic before the storm continues to keep its integrity and significance continuing on.

My name is Steve Clark. I'm a FEMA Project Specialist. I've been assigned to work the damage repair work here at Fort Travis. The bunkers received very little damage from Hurricane Ike due to the construction methods of which they were built. Two of the bunkers do have a subterranean areas outside of them that had debris build up that we've dealt with. Primarily the damage exists along the seawall where a historic concrete and brick path running approximately 3,200 feet exists.

My name is David Cockrum. I'm with FEMA Hazard Mitigation and we're going to do some repairs. And what we're doing, we're going to do mitigation to this park. And it's very simple to do it now. We have the opportunity while we have the damage there and we're going to be doing the repairs. We're going to compact the soil, compact the sand and re-bar in back of the sidewalk and we'll compact the sand underneath the brick road. And this will keep this thing from ever happening again. Our mitigation is extremely cost effective and it will save the tax payers money and it's something that we won't have to come back and fix in the next hurricane. Our mitigation makes sense for us. It saves us 3 to 4 dollars for every dollar we spend. And it's extremely effective to do it now while we have the opportunity.