Sustainably is written into our Alaska constitution.

I think that getting communication at the fishing community level to the lay public.

I love my Russian friends, but when they have crab that is caught illegally or low-quality, then we're going to have a response to them.

We commend Senators Lisa Murkowski and Mark Begich, and this Committee, for recent efforts to pass federal legislation targeted to resolve specific problems and to address region-specific challenges.

This legislation would enable many of our people to maintain their subsistence way of life without facing burdensome fees that many cannot afford.

So you think that the tools are there, it is just someone needs to help just facilitate it?

the way that cost/benefit analysis works really for communities of your size and Vivian's communities, they are too small of populations

Now Tribes can request declaration of emergency, instead of waiting for the States.

To do better planning and strategies?

If I am the community, I will use Anchorage here, for example, I got to FEMA.

the impact is much more dramatic than just a few homes. It is the ability to survive.

Our greatest risks are the ones that we do not anticipate and for which we do not prepare.

the Federal Government had a hand in this.

Can I ask you this, John, and then again, I apologize, our clock is ticked here, I have some other questions I will submit for the record, that you can prepare from your office that says, 'Here's what we did in that Immediate Action…

Can you, for the Committee, at some point, prepare something that explains doing a demonstration project, what it might entail, what kind of agency coordination and what kind of costing would be required?

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When there are floods or there are lack of resources now coming because of erosion or flood or other activities, they are unable to survive.

The end result was, to be very frank with you, in this city, we built more roads in 5 years than we built in 20.

That would be great.

I will give you one--as I flip over to the Corps here, I will give you an example.

So the real-time forecasting, and this is very interesting what you are talking about, because I can imagine NOAA folks are just ecstatic about this kind of information that they can get their hands on.

Well, like Newtok is moving, correct?

By mitigating the future, by moving those homes, we prevented the homes you rebuilt from being flooded.

It is not just a little bit of, people think that well, it is just a little bit of dirt falling off.

Do you think that idea would be helpful?