t. The two countries agreed to establish a working relationship within respective emergency centers, and the DoE agreed to provide MinAtom with emergency management training and exercise assistance. The Department of Energy also agreed to provide future assistance for technology and engineering at the Situation Crisis Center. In preparation for the date rollover, the DOE helped to monitor all 29 nuclear power reactors in Russia, and provided hardware, software, training, and assistance with contingency plans. PAROLE: WEB CAMERAS REDUCE TIME A web camera has eliminated forty-hours-per-month of travel for hearing judge, Carol Bohannan, who used to make the drive from the Arkansas state's Post Prison Transfer Board office in Little Rock. Before the webcam was in place, Bohannan and two other hearing judges traveled about 2,000-3,000 miles each per month to revocation proceedings throughout the state. Hearing officers and board members, who hold parole hearings at the state's prisons, drove 132,872 in one year in lieu of the webcams. Jim Williams, who has been doing revocation hearings for nine years, began to think of videoconferencing as an alternative for the Post Prison Transfer Board after seeing such a system five years earlier in the Bentonville court system. He and his colleagues got a camera from the Arkansas Department of Correction to use for videoconferencing in Benton County. Later, the three hearing officers began using web cameras attached to personal computers to conduct hearings elsewhere. Ernest Sanders, a hearing officer since 1998, said the hearing judges each spent about $30 of their own money to buy cameras because they did not want to wait for availability of funds for more expensive conferencing equipment. Sanders proclaimed, "We just dial in. They have a camera; we have a camera. We focus, and we're ready to go." About nine county parole offices now have access to videoconferencing systems. Some hearings are in remote areas of the state. With more than 14,000 parolees in the state, the Post P