You simply cannot attract them if you have substandard facilities, and you can't attract them if you have housing issues.

It doesn't work. I think you just have to admit it doesn't work.

this administration views its relationship with Native Americans as trust-based, not race-based.

They will be included.

That would be a nonstarter.

We included $15 million in the omnibus for the Small Ambulatory Clinic Program.

Think about raising the cap on residency slots. Does that help? Or are you still stuck with the fact that these people are not going to be comfortable because they have not really experienced life in that rural and remote setting?

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.

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

Thank you, Madam Chair.

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

I think it would be helpful in averting some problems if we are able to address it at the front end before there are looming enforcement actions that cause concern.

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

We want to work with EPA to find a solution.

We don't either. Again, this has not been an issue under your leadership, but it is an issue that we have been dealing with for years now.

We included a provision to limit EPA's ability to enforce the regulation related to the small remote incinerators.

Every year I need to go back into my records and find out how long it has been that we have been working to resolve this issue.

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

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

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.

It will be included.

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.

We will include the documents----

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.

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