Brian Bilbray: “The fact is that it is costing $1.5 million. The fact is, it is only a 4- to 5-year waiver, and the fact that under our…”

“The fact is that it is costing $1.5 million. The fact is, it is only a 4- to 5-year waiver, and the fact that under our bill all monitoring, the EPA will monitor it, the Environmental Protection Agency of California will monitor it. We have developed a system that scientists say will be the most cost-effective way of approaching this. All of the monitoring, all of the public health protections are there. As long as the environment continues not to be injured, we will continue to move forward. And you have to understand, too, one thing you do not understand that Mr. Filner and I do understand, we have had at the time of this process, this bureaucratic process has been going on, we have had our beaches closed and polluted from other sources that the EPA has ignored.”