So the bottom line is, when we fail to provide the adequate money to the DRF, you sometimes have to stop projects that are not easily restarted in some States, depending on their weather patterns, winter, et cetera?

If we had a major earthquake?

When do you think those estimates will come in?

Okay, you understand that in the continuing resolution that we are operating on, there is only $2.6 billion for disasters for 2012? Is that number sufficient, to your understanding to date?

I think it would be very helpful for this subcommittee, and I know this is difficult, but you have in your staff a lot of experience.

Okay, thank you for correcting that.

And I think the Senator from Mississippi is absolutely correct.

So it is a $3 billion backlog?

I think, unfortunately, we have developed a habit and a pattern of underbudgeting for emergencies that we absolutely know, based on historical records, are going to occur.

But to have programs that people have hope for and not fund them I think is the cruelest of all.

I think it is going to be extremely difficult even with the array of other programs.

$30 million?

$1.7 billion.

I am proud that the Senate adopted a $6.9 billion disaster recovery that included all of your agencies.

Are there any other questions before we close this panel out?

We want to help them to get back up, not only because it is the right thing to do, but economically, it is the smart thing to do.

I think that is what Senator Cochran, Senator Blunt, I, and others are saying, that after this historic flood, we need to take an assessment.

Thank you, Senator Lautenberg, for those excellent remarks and questions.