We need to be able to act on it and we need to be able to act on it now.

I would hope that if there is any agreement up here, it is with a recognition that when our Native peoples, our indigenous peoples, are provided or given a promise by the Federal Government that the very basic promise will be kept and that…

So in 2014 then, with that Congressional directive specific to BLM, BLM was effectively told, prepare a cleanup plan for each of the contaminated sites that were transferred pursuant to ANCSA.

We have action items that we need to move forward on.

This needs to be addressed. It just needs to be addressed.

I would hope the Department of Interior and you as the new BLM State director would be willing to make that commitment.

But BLM has not more broadly identified cost of remediation throughout the State?

I am committed to working with ANVCA and the affected folks to identify the sites that I know have not yet been put on one of these lists.

And Mayor, that was one of the things that you had mentioned in your comments as well, is that the Ounalashka Corporation would like to be more included in cleanup aspects of it, and recognizing that this builds capacity and provides for…

Everyone recognizes there is environmental injustice that has been done.

We cannot, we cannot continue to say it is somebody else's responsibility.

we sincerely thank the Committee for this opportunity to discuss the Corps' environmental cleanup activities on ANCSA contained lands

It was here in the Aleutians where this Country was invaded by the Japanese.

if this was any other responsible party, they would be the ones on the hook for doing this.

I take your point on consultation very seriously.

Well, I really hope we're not the party of Trump.

I have never believed that a party, a political party, should be the party of one individual. I just don`t believe that.

I have the same values and convictions and positions and policies.