Max Baucus actually said...

It is our responsibility to make sure that as we move forward with offshore oil and gas developments we are doing so with the utmost care to...

I thank you and Secretary Sebelius and the Administration for the declaration of public health urgency.

But that doesn't necessarily mean that it has to be, maybe it does, a categorical exclusion, does it?

Why then was a categorical exclusion used at this site, and what is MMS doing to ensure that our most special places are protected?