Mazie Hirono
The Public Record
According to your testimony, your Bureau is now reviewing over 5,000 pages of technical feedback on the draft rule.
If the environmental and safety regulatory standards laid out in the WCR are implemented, operators will have to factor in the cost of the compliance with the rule in addition to their operating costs.
Did you also take into consideration--I realize this is difficult to predict because you do not want to make any predictions based on the actual occurrence of disasters--but when there is a disaster and there are deaths, then the company…
I think that if we define 'constraints' as, really, speed, thrift, simplicity, I think that's what we're getting at.
Our acquisition process is highly complicated, and yet we are stuck in a bygone era.
I've often wondered why it is that we don't separate out these budgets, because, in the States, it's--the capital budgets are usually called the capital improvements budget [plans], CIP.





