John Rice Carter: “This is something I have worked on. I have worked on it now for almost 6 months. This is cement, and John Sullivan, who…”

“This is something I have worked on. I have worked on it now for almost 6 months. This is cement, and John Sullivan, who has been working with us on this, is bringing this up that week of October 3. The Cement MACT and two related rules are expected to affect approximately 100 cement plants in America. Now, when we say cement we are talking about a process that makes that powdery gravel and sand that, if you go to the--I won't advertise for anybody--but if you go to one of these stores that sells stuff for construction, you will see these sacks of stuff that say something ``crete''--``cement crete'' or something like it. And in that sack is a bunch of stuff, and you add water to it, you make concrete. Gardeners use it, everybody uses it. On a bigger scale you pour slabs for foundations for buildings. On an even bigger scale you put special reinforced steel in the cement pour, the concrete pour, and you make pre-stressed concrete walls which most of our big buildings in this country and around the world are built with. In fact, concrete is the number two building material in the world. The number one building material in the world is water. Of the elements that are used in building things, Portland cement is number two, and it's the process that makes the powder that binds it to make concrete. {time} 2050 Now, this is our process. We discovered it. We did it. We originated the prestressed concrete that many of these buildings here in Washington, D.C.…”