So in 2014 then, with that Congressional directive specific to BLM, BLM was effectively told, prepare a cleanup plan for each of the contaminated sites that were transferred pursuant to ANCSA.

we sincerely thank the Committee for this opportunity to discuss the Corps' environmental cleanup activities on ANCSA contained lands

We have action items that we need to move forward on.

What we need to do is we need to have an actionable plan.

If you have limitations, part of what I can do as a lawmaker is we can work to change those.

I would hope the Department of Interior and you as the new BLM State director would be willing to make that commitment.

the longer the FUDS are contaminated, the more we see the PCB pollution remain in the food chain

Do you think that we appropriately or adequately fund the Native American Lands Environmental Mitigation Program?

Sometimes we just have to acknowledge that it is going to cost money.

Thank you all. I appreciate your contributions to the discussions.

We cannot, we cannot continue to say it is somebody else's responsibility.

I would hope that there would be an opportunity for some of the issues that have been raised in both areas, for people to be able to weigh in and to provide greater clarity for the record.

We have an obligation to clean up the messes that we create.

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 coordinating agency.

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.

If we are recognizing that ANCSA contaminated lands is an environmental justice issue, we are going to try to encourage the Administration to commit to utilizing environmental justice funds.

I want to know what the barriers are and if we can take some of those down.

We have not only Ounalashka Corporation that has its own environmental team.