mr. paulison: thank you. >> thank you, mr. crawford. the chair recognizes the gentleman from -- the chair recognizes mr. defazio for five minutes. mr. defazio: thank you, mr. chairman. just back to the line of question of the subcommittee ranking member. i asked similar questions at an earlier hearing. what we have is contradiction here. the two contractors here claim that fema review the contracts and actually signed off on excluding oversight. that's been denied by fema and again today and so actually the inspector general is going to try to get to the bottom of this how these rather fishy contracts were entered into and what role fema played but we can't resolve that today until we have the i.g. report. so let's go to some issues we might be able to resolve. mr. byard, ranking member titus and i just recently sent the administrator a letter expressing concern about your personnel, your reservists for emergencies. u should have 10,987 reservests. ou had 6,749 on call and you industrial 3,383 deployed. that seems to leave us with somet

mr. paulison, because you have been a former fema administrator, correct? >> yes, sir. >> would you be able to speak whether or not statutorily every five years that's required by fema to update the maps? >> i can't speak about the five years but when i was the administrator we had started to doing the flood mapping and i know north carolina was one of the first starts we started. i'm not sure they have gotten so far. but i know that fema had started that process of trying to do the entire country to get more accurate flood maps. >> well, i appreciate you all being here today. i think i have to submit my questions for the record for someone else in your agency to answer. but i appreciate your cooperation. thank you. >> yes, sir. >> thank you, mr. crawford. the chair recognizes mr. defazio for five minutes. >> thanks, mr. chairman. just back to the line of questioning by the subcommittee ranking member i had asked similar questions at an earlier hearing and what we have is a contradiction here. the two contractors claim that fema reviewed the contracts and a