The Senate is a wonderful institution, we've actually had three astronaut Senators--John Glenn, Jake Garn, and Bill Nelson.

Let us get that distributed to the subcommittee for our review.

I believe we can probably obtain that information. Is that accurate?

You have corrected a number of those deficiencies by what we have seen, the mistakes in the past.

Now, after the stimulus bill money is over, which is in a couple of years, what happens to those jobs?

Congress went along with that, on the condition that when Rocky Flats was finished, the savings would be applied to accelerate cleanup at other sites.

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?

What is it that you're cleaning up, and why is it necessary to spend all this money?

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.