Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"If there's no accountability for a timely decision, if you can just continue, kind of, putting it off, putting it off."

"So if you have a continued backlog that continues for a period of years you may run your first permit period and then your extension that is allowed."

"So with these permits that are part of this backlog, these pending permits have a 2-year life to their permit."

"I guess I would just, again, reinforce the timeliness of these decisions is absolutely key because if we lose yet another season."