In a State like Alaska... the agencies... can slow down, they can impede, they can kill opportunities.
It just seems like in so many situations you can read the writing before you have even made the application.
We have many small communities that feel that perhaps they have been discriminated or the treatment is just not on a lev...
I think it is important that we really do try to emphasize that local hire and making sure that we have the individuals ...
They clearly believe that the magnitude of loss that was suffered there merited the Individual Assistance program.
I would like to do that, because I do think it is important.
I brought up the flooding that had affected Crooked Creek and Red Devil, which are both Alaska Native villages in Wester...
We need to have our own contingency plan because we don't have the availability of the neighbors around us.
Most of our small villages don't qualify for the assistance under the program because they don't meet the cost-benefit c...
we really do have to have an energy policy that is comprehensive.
I think it is important that you do make that statement, do make that commitment because I think in our work here in the...