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Jerry Lewis: “I frankly cannot answer the question. I do not know the technical side of how they went about putting it together, this…”

On the recordJuly 15, 1997
I frankly cannot answer the question. I do not know the technical side of how they went about putting it together, this process that relates to a contract. But I do know that this is apparently a facility that would be built on land that the Department of Energy owns and they would see it used for this purpose, and end up with free land. There is a need that is very real and apparently there are personnel in the region that could be very responsive to the challenges of this particular facility. But I am sure the process is not perfect, and one of the reasons that one of the authorizing chairmen will be presenting an amendment is he wants time to step back and take a look at some of these questions. I think they are very appropriate questions.
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Jerry Lewis
California
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Discussing concerns about a facility to be built on Department of Energy land.

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