Taking off on that, Colonel Chytka, my understanding is that navigation is one of the authorized uses within the basin.

The hearing is entitled, 'The Effects of Water Flows in Apalachicola Bay: Short- and Long-Term Perspectives.'

the funding is not going to be easy, but we are going to have to find it.

Congress needs to get it funded as soon as possible.

the goal of today's hearing. We have two primary goals. The first is we want to continue to build the Congressional Record that we will be able to go back and use to justify our continued efforts to congressionally direct the Army Corps of…

What we want is basically to take a count of the volume and then basically have a system of fairness that would apportion it across the states that use it.

Do you know how much more water Georgia has requested? And when you consider that request, how do you account for the impact that any additional withdrawal is going to have on the entire water system?

I look forward to continuing to work with the Committee on these very important issues, answering any questions you may have.

Well, my last question is, why does the process of drafting an environmental impact statement take so long? And are there any plans to expedite that?

Well, as you work on the operation manual, do you plan to emphasize water conservation?

Hence the restoration stuff we just talked about.