It is on schedule. It is under budget, and we intend to finish that in fall of this year.

I guess the question I ask, is there more that you could do to raise dollars for the program that would in essence help us with this budget?

So is that broken out between what is required to do the study, as defined in scope by the Congress, and the additional work that you just referenced?

I believe that this is a rule that you are developing and implementing as a result of some conditions in the Appalachian region of the country.

And if you'll work with us both in terms of collaborating with States, with the tribes and with industry, I think we can help make that guidance more effective in a way that creates some rules of the road that the industry understands…

Does this new performance standard that you're proposing apply to new plants, only new plants, or does it also apply to existing plants?

It has to be a workable regulation.

But we have to understand business practices and how they work.

Our North Star here has to be to use the abundant resource of natural gas.

Cost-benefit needs to be part of it.

Are you willing to have either you, Mr. Secretary, or your designee come out to my State and actually take a look on the ground at the situation and talk to some of our companies before you proceed?

That is the kind of thing that does not work for business.

We want to do it safely and well. We want good transparency.

We can do so much more with good environmental stewardship.

We are number one in the country in land reclamation. We are number one in terms of how we handle the water.

We appreciate your willingness to work with us on it.

But it's important to distinguish between a rule and between guidance and understand that under a State primacy program, the State has the authority to make its own determination.

If we want to continue to develop clean coal technology, we've got to have a realistic rule.