Have you reviewed the results of the red teams and the recommendations on the MOX alternative and do you see any issues implementing that alternative?

I am frankly inadequate to sit in a hearing with this stuff because most of it I don't understand.

So you would do research into those arenas?

Why such a steep reduction, and can DOE fulfill all of its commitments to clean up the River Corridor at this funding level?

Our strategy is not based on hope.

I have not heard a problem here that a small modular reactor could not fix.

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 established an Energy Security and Infrastructure Fund.

I would like to thank all the subcommittees again for their hard work on the fiscal year 2016 omnibus bill.

I would like to thank the Commission for the work that you have done thus far to develop the issues and issue a supplemental environmental impact statement for Yucca Mountain because the Department of Energy seems to refuse to do so.

In addition to $10 billion we have already spent on Yucca, the Department of Energy estimates that we have $27 billion of liabilities deriving from our failure to meet our legal obligation to dispose of this waste.

I appreciate that. The reason we gave it to the NRC is because we used to do it within the Department of Energy and the Department of Energy did not take it very seriously, and so we gave it to the NRC which I think you have done a good…

Ok. NNSA's new proposal to start shipping plutonium to WIPP, will that take up any of the limited shipping capacity?

How are we progressing about moving facilities to EM that need to be moved to EM and getting them out of the laboratory part of the budget?

The grid is privately owned by private utility companies. What is our role in helping modernize the grid?

they underfunded, the Army Corps of Engineers by over a billion dollars, which we are going to have to find somewhere.

It would be nice to actually get things done on time.

Well, that would be a mistake living in Florida instead of Idaho.

We already can make renewable hydrogen from solar and wind today, and if we can push down the cost further through advanced water-splitting technologies, you have an opportunity to really deeply decarbonize transportation.

I would like to yield to Congresswoman Lowey for a final question.

the budget submission by the administration calls for about a $650 million increase over last year.

Then we can make a determination about where it belongs, so we know what our total liabilities are in the future.

In closing I am honored to be here today representing the Office of Environmental Management.

I think that is the inappropriate use of fines.

I am going to support that budget for nuclear physics.

I think each project, each scope of work needs to be treated differently, and different types of contracts need to be used depending on the type of work.