It is nice to have Senator Fischer on.

I would like to have more conversation with your team about that.

this is new for us. And what we are seeing, it is traveling like wildfire, and what you look at, as you are as on the coast, or flying above, you can visually see the movement there.

EPA's mismanagement has led to elevated PM 2.5 emissions even though Congress has provided almost $100 million for wood stove changeouts.

Alaska is willing and able to increase our Nation's and our allies energy security.

I hope that we can even find greater areas of how we can be working together to grow Alaska's role in our nation's economy or energy or mineral security, while also cherishing and protecting our lands, our people, and our culture.

I have already set up a team internally to start looking at how we might address that.

GLRI funds have been effectively deployed to protect safe clean drinking water supplies, clean up toxic sites, protect wetlands and shorelines, hold off invasive species from entering the Great Lakes, and safeguard aquatic resources.

What is the rationale between--with just enacted levels when it comes to MMIW across the country?

Domestic supply matters to our energy security and also matters to our mineral security.

I would hope that you would agree that this proposed move is a reorganization that is defined by the Committee's reprogramming guidelines, and so therefore would be subject to Appropriations' Committee approval.

I hope that you and your team will be able to explore ways in which CDS projects can be awarded faster.

But I do want to impress upon you that right now the community leaders, the mayors of the Borough of the Kenai Peninsula, as well as within the Anchorage area, they are coming to me, not for more in appropriations, because they are not…

Thank you Chairman Jeff Merkley, Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski, and Members of the subcommittee for your leadership to reduce pollution in rivers, improve clean water access, safeguard public drinking water supplies.

But all they talked about was the injustice that they felt in having been denied their native allotment.

It is good to hear the Director speak so highly of the CHAP Program and the benefit that it can provide.

I think we recognize that there is so much, so much that has to be done in this area.

Okay. So maybe you can work with us on some of this TA that we are looking for?

I believe the Agency is engaging in regulatory overreach with WOTUS, which the Senate has expressed its disapproval on.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think we recognize we not only--we not only need the minerals but we are going to have to do more to promote some efficiencies, and deal with the permitting issues; something that we are all talking about here on a bipartisan basis.

I think it has to be done at whatever expense necessary.

But all they talked about was the injustice that they felt in having been denied their native allotment.

I am going to be up in Fairbanks this weekend, and I can tell you this is going to be a hot, hot, hot topic there.

I thought that we were going to be a little more competitive, perhaps, in the Community Wildfire Defense Program Grant.