FEMA did not have its act together, and we knew that in Florida the year before when four hurricanes hit Florida in 2004 within a 6-week period.

I can testify to that because I have been sitting by his side in the Emergency Operations Center of the State of Florida since 1995 and have seen him perform under very difficult circumstances.

You have corrected a number of those deficiencies by what we have seen, the mistakes in the past.

I'm going to slip out to another appointment.

Thank you, Dr. Triay.

Back on the jobs, do you have an estimate of the new jobs that are created by the stimulus bill, how many are going to be Federal and how many in the private sector?

Congress went along with that, on the condition that when Rocky Flats was finished, the savings would be applied to accelerate cleanup at other sites.

Now, after the stimulus bill money is over, which is in a couple of years, what happens to those jobs?

It's a pleasure to work with you. We have a lot of work to do in this subcommittee.

Senator Bill Nelson. Senator Begich, I'm going to call on you, and Senator Sessions will chair the meeting until I can get back.

Are any of the stimulus funds used for ongoing construction projects?

the vast majority of that life-cycle cost increase was because of assumptions that were too aggressive and lack of reality in the funding profile.

All right. Of the material remaining, how do you go about accounting for all of that, of what you're not going to clean up?

I share your concerns on behalf of the money and the taxpayers who are footing the bill for this cleanup.

What is it that you're cleaning up, and why is it necessary to spend all this money?

Under the stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Department of Energy (DOE) received $5.1 billion to address a substantial backlog of these cleanup projects.

All right. Now, are the projects that are going to be funded first with the stimulus bill money, is this addressing the high-risk and the most cost-effective projects?

So, when you use the term 'shovel-ready,' you're talking about the projects you've just described.