Byron Dorgan: “You see additional offshore drilling and production with additional safeguards and regulations and procedures?”

I have great confidence in Mary Wakefield.

Senator Dorgan once said it takes four agencies and 49 steps. I think with the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, we say it is seven agencies and 100 steps.

I just want to say that I am concerned about the court's decision in Carcieri and the impact it may have on those tribes that were recognized after 1934.

Safety always comes up. There is always an issue of what is happening around them in their environment that causes them concern about their safety.