Thomas R. Carper: “I think we can do that.”

We are better off when we hear community concerns at the beginning of the process rather than at the end.

Thank you for your passion, and I would ask that we spend the rest of this day dealing with this.

If I had known--as you know, the breadth of the issues that we cover in this Committee are enormous. It is impossible for any of us to fully master each of them.

Public engagement can build trust, it can increase public buy-in, can help resolve issues, can help prevent litigation, and ultimately it can save time and money.