outdated requirements are resulting in over $100 million worth of natural gas being wasted, which has cost my State $43 million in lost royalties since 2009.

The law that transferred the Valles Caldera to the National Park Service allows these longstanding permits to remain in place.

I am very supportive of the department's efforts to develop new rules related to methane venting and flaring.

You are doing the right thing, Secretary Jewell, and I want to work with you to enact common-sense reforms.

The cost of inaction on mining reform has been too great already.

We have to get serious about cleaning up abandoned mines.

Thank you very much for that initiative, because I have many communities in my State that I think need that kind of initiative and kind of push that you are making there.

The unemployment rate there is totally unacceptable. It is near 50 percent.

I think that creates some real risk for us.

I hope the Congress will listen to the advice of our military commanders.

It seems to me this is a change in doctrine that is really disturbing.

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Frankly, as I am preaching to the choir, I am sure farmers and ranchers are the backbone of conservation in America.

I have also heard that some producers may get a grant, so they might be smaller and still manage to get a grant, but because there is no technical assistance components to those grants, it can be very difficult for them to successfully…

Your experience makes a difference, and if there are things that come to you, that is very helpful to us.

Ms. Lujan Grisham, as you mentioned with the acequias, I am very happy to point out one of the examples of a project we already have rolling out here is the Acequias De Las Joyas.

I really appreciate that, and I am hoping for the same kind of environment on looking at ways to use our agro-ecosystems to capture atmospheric carbon.

This is exactly what I want to hear, although I would encourage you to work with all Federal agencies...