Lisa Murkowski

Should we expect the rollout of these loans to happen relatively quickly?

So one of the things we're actually looking at is using a regionalization approach that will allow regional water systems to kind of band together.

We are looking at it as an opportunity, really an extraordinary opportunity, to help facilitate a level of public safety that has been lacking for a long time.

In the fiscal year 2018 omnibus, I included $20 million to help small and disadvantaged communities obtain basic water and sewer infrastructure.

Let me speak to you about some of the water programs...

I do hope, however, that you can provide me with a status on the review, and, again, your commitment to helping us find a workable solution.

In the omnibus bill that we just passed, we included language that requires EPA to reexamine this regulation related to diesel generators.

I appreciate that recognition; we have to do more that provides for that level of certainty.

I need to hear from you again the commitment that you will provide me, as well as your team, to really work with the communities and the borough, to address the challenges that they face.

It will be included.

The purpose behind it, as far as what we heard in 2015, was to provide certainty, that folks across the country needed clarity on where Federal jurisdiction began and ended.

I have been encouraged by the plans to reexamine the regulation and to come up with a more sensible proposal.

Well, thank you for that, sir. And let me move then to a policy initiative.

I appreciate you outlining the issues that you have undertaken as an Agency to work again towards the goals that I think we all recognize are the mission set within the EPA: clean air and clean water.

We must address, and we must change.

I have not lost faith in the FBI as an institution.

We will include the documents----

I think that's something we need to take a look at.

We are here to consider the nomination of Aimee Kathryn Jorjani to be the Chair of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation.

Thank you for your leadership. Obviously, significant issues, and we want to make sure that the expectations that we have for you and your team to do your job as it relates to our public lands, their treasures and their economic…

It is a concern to the Department of Defense, certainly, it is to me, as a concern it should be to our Nation, that we make sure we honor our treaty obligations and treat our territories with dignity, respect, and support.

When we make that commitment that we will be there, when it appears that we have not kept that commitment or that we have delayed it, it does cause them to question that relationship that we have.

I certainly hope that the Department is making an effort to do right by Palau.

It is public safety. We have a volcano in Alaska.

If you think that we are not on track with this transfer and the purchase, if your folks can let us know, that would be greatly appreciated.