
We need more Federal funding. And not to say that $6 billion is not a lot of money; it is to the taxpayers. But it is a drop in the bucket compared to what we actually need.
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We need more Federal funding. And not to say that $6 billion is not a lot of money; it is to the taxpayers. But it is a drop in the bucket compared to what we actually need.

We are doing exactly that, actually. I was just talking with our czar who is heading up this entire emergency operation.

$6 billion stretched across the country is not going to go very far.

We want to protect the folks that actually have drug addictions and not treat them just as law enforcement cases.

I think we do need more Federal funding with some flexibility for each state.

But the folks that are bringing in these large quantities of deadly drugs, knowing that they are going to kill our citizens, we are cracking down and getting tougher on those folks.

It has to take a comprehensive approach. It is the early education and the prevention, and then it is the treatment for the folks who need it, but also cracking down on the people that are profiting from death.

People that are addicted need treatment, and they need help, and we are trying to get them the help they need rather than go after them on the law enforcement side.

We do need help from the Federal Government on expanding Medically Assisted Treatment. That is the only way that you can get people off these drugs.

We also need more targeted and aggressive Federal enforcement interdiction efforts when it comes to fentanyl and these other opioids through initiatives like the Synthetic Trafficking and Overdose Prevention, or STOP, Act.

I urge you, and your colleagues, to make increased funding for the opioid crisis a top priority.

We simply cannot stop it without the Federal Government stepping up.

We ask ourselves that same question nearly every day.

And they are totally independent, so this legislation, while it may impact CERCLA requirements, would not impact the Community Right-to-Know requirement?

OK. And I understand one of the questions here is whether or not this legislation also eliminates the requirements to report under Community Right-to-Know.

My question is, if you remove this requirement, in the event there was something that was not a low level emission, that was a high level concentrated emission, if we get rid of this entirely, is there any duty to report?

I think it is a really important point on the concentration.

So I think those are all really good points.