George Miller: “I assume the gentleman is getting the response that I do in the district that I represent. City officials for the first…”

“I assume the gentleman is getting the response that I do in the district that I represent. City officials for the first time feel like the EPA and Superfund is there to help them. They have spent 10 years languishing, trying to get through this morass of complications, and all of a sudden here is this administration, Carol Browner and our regional person, Felicia Marcus, who are going out meeting with cities, the city dump, dealing with providing efforts to bring in new economic activity, cleaning up the Superfund sites, committing resources, committing personnel to doing this. For the first time, the mayors and city council people in my area that have had these problems from many years ago are talking about this as a positive agency. For 10 years they looked at them like all they were doing is hindering the city that was trying to get going. For the first time we see this. So we do not need a grandiose plan, what we need is someone who is committed to carrying out the intent and purposes of the Superfund law, and getting our communities cleaned up so we can get on with the kind of economic activity that is possible in those areas.”