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LIers testify at state hearing on Sandy rebuilding

Originally published: January 17, 2013 7:44 PM
Updated: January 17, 2013 9:42 PM
By ALFONSO A. CASTILLO alfonso.castillo@newsday.com

Photo credit: Howard Schnapp | Senators Carl Marcellino and Jack Martins, part of the Senate Standing Committee on Investigations and Government Operations, listen to Nassau County Executive Edward Mangano testifiy during a hearing to consider possible infrastructure and construction improvements, zoning changes and beach protection when rebuilding after superstorm Sandy in Mineola. (Jan. 17, 2013)

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Nassau and Suffolk elected officials, engineers and environmental experts Thursday made their cases before a state committee on what needs to be done to rebuild Long Island after superstorm Sandy -- and to protect it from future natural disasters.

The testimony came at a three-hour hearing in Mineola before the State Senate Standing Committee on Investigations and Government Operations, chaired...

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