But if the staff's final recommendation were positive, could the reactor start and power be generated during 2015?

Well, is the first step for it to then-- if that application were to come in, is the step then for you to give a rule on whether or not it gets licensed or not?

So you need for us to act to be able to use those funds.

Thank you, Senator Lankford. I have an appointment with the President's nominee for Secretary of Defense.

But let me be clear: Yucca Mountain can and should be part of the solution.

Well, if you are looking for a public-private partnership, you have it on the Inland Waterways Trust Fund.

I do not think and I am sure it is true--any other form of energy production in our country has a record of safety that exceeds nuclear power.

We have developed the plan. We worked with you. We think you are doing a good job with the money you have.

These are three extremely important steps to give our country the inland waterways that we need.

I want to say at the outset what a privilege it has been to work with the Senator from California over the last few years.

it's disappointing the Obama administration has failed to do its job.

I think that the decision to make the percentage breakdown 85 percent of the general treasury for Olmstead was helpful, but it allowed that fund to grow much higher than it would have been in previous years.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I have said in statement I would like to double energy research.

The project is not just important to Chattanooga, but to all of eastern Tennessee because of the number of jobs affected.

I would like to see that. I would like to see some estimate of what the backlog of projects is, what the estimated work plan is over the next several years, and how the funding that is expected to come in from the trust fund and the…

it is disappointing that the administration has failed to do its job.

the lock could close in a few years unless progress is made.