mr. tierney and mr.hop from utah, my colleague, mr., also involved in these two committees will be joining us here shortly. i'm pleased to hold today's hearing shortly with my friend and gentleman from utah, representative bishop. he is the chairman ever the house committee on national resources suncommittee on public land and environmental regulation and i look forward to working with him on an ongoing basis on these issues. today's proceedings result from a need to further address questions and concerns a raised in june 27th report from this year issued by the u.s. department interior office of inspector general, entitled, review of u.s. park police weapons accountability program. in the report the oig made some very serious charges finding insufficient, quote, accountability, accuracy and oversight of the u.s. park police's firearms program. during the course of the oig's investigation the oig found, quote, credible evidence of conditions that would allow for theft and misuse of firearms and the abili