So is it not accurate, though, that EPA would still be able to veto the project once details and specifics are actually ...
We need to be able to do the projects like Wrangell this year.
I would ask for a commitment that we would--that you would be able to hold at least one, hopefully more, public events s...
The return on investing in our Nation's forests is great.
I just do not see that we need to add another layer with EPA onto that regulation.
Many of us are very concerned about this, and feel that the effort coming out of EPA is a duplicative effort.
I appreciate a desire for consistency and certainty, but you have started your comments out recognizing that there are u...
I think you are aware that just at the beginning of this week, one of the investors... has chosen to convey their intere...
How are we going to get to the numbers that you are talking about? I mean, are they just numbers on paper?
And again, a preemptive veto is--this would be first ever.
In many parts of Alaska, we continue to live in third world conditions.
But we have not seen any permits. We have not seen any application.
This was just yet one more example of how folks in Washington, DC, do not get us.
I am troubled to see this proposal, very troubled.
But if we have a process that does not allow for certainty along the way, it is pretty difficult to entice anybody to co...
I am going to yield to my colleague who also has to go chair another Appropriations Committee hearing.
This rule could dramatically expand the lands subject to regulation.
An interpretation that goes a different way could really be a showstopper for us.
