Olympia Snowe actually said...

So it's really shocking to think that, in the last 20 years, we haven't developed either the methods or the technology as part of a contingency plan.

Snowe expresses disbelief at the stagnation in oil spill response technology over two decades.

07/20/2010

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I think that, again, it sounds like a massive bureaucracy and not at the level that's commensurate with the catastrophe at hand, frankly.

Yes, thank you. Mr. Helton, did NOAA have any contingency plans in place with respect to a response to an oil spill in the aftermath of Exxo...

And was one developed since Exxon Valdez in that sense of with the use of chemical dispersants?

It's kind of like working behind a guy who's hanging drywall, but you're handing him a sledgehammer.