I have suggested that is Interior, the Department of Interior, that would play a very key and a very important role in terms of a coordinati...
Everyone recognizes there is environmental injustice that has been done.
I would hope the Department of Interior and you as the new BLM State director would be willing to make that commitment.
But it shouldn't be hard for the people who gave up 90 percent of their country for $60 billion or $30 billion.
So let me ask on that, I think you have outlined the importance of making sure that you are consolidating the information, that everybody is...
the longer the FUDS are contaminated, the more we see the PCB pollution remain in the food chain
I would just ask that through BLM, through Interior, that they play a role as the coordinating lead.
And Mayor, that was one of the things that you had mentioned in your comments as well, is that the Ounalashka Corporation would like to be m...
We cannot continue with more of the same. Because more of the same is an injustice to these people and to Alaska Natives and people really a...
we are hearing too many of these health-related concerns to not be paying attention to them
We have an obligation on the Federal side to clean up messes that have been created by our own government.
I take your point on consultation very seriously.
I am committed to working with ANVCA and the affected folks to identify the sites that I know have not yet been put on one of these lists.
Sometimes we just have to acknowledge that it is going to cost money.
We recognize that travel here is a little bit different than anywhere else in the Country.
This is the responsibility, this is an obligation of the Federal Government to basically clean up its own mess.
It seems to me that the directive to the BLM was to prepare a cleanup plan for each of the contaminated sites. So just transferring it to th...
We have already identified the responsible parties. We have done that. That is what we began to do in 1998.
