"the vast majority of that life-cycle cost increase was because of assumptions that were too aggressive and lack of reality in the funding profile."
"All right. Of the material remaining, how do you go about accounting for all of that, of what you're not going to clean up?"
"That's how you come to the percentage cleanup that you're going to achieve?"
"Under the stimulus bill, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the Department of Energy (DOE) received $5.1 billion to address a substantial backlog of these cleanup projects."
"All right. Now, are the projects that are going to be funded first with the stimulus bill money, is this addressing the high-risk and the most cost-effective projects?"
"So, when you use the term 'shovel-ready,' you're talking about the projects you've just described."
"Okay. Now, let me ask you, on the stimulus bill projects, how did you decide what projects were going to be funded?"
"The timetable in which you're going to do it, that's negotiated, as well?"
"You have to have somebody on the ground who does that and somebody who is a professional in doing that."
"It is what this Nation needs. It is what Florida has been fortunate to have."
"FEMA did not have its act together, and we knew that in Florida the year before when four hurricanes hit Florida in 2004 within a 6-week period."