If you think about it, the work that you've been doing with Russia and the other countries of the former USSR, it makes sense for you to look at some of the Middle East countries because you have a similar situation going on.

Your budget increase is 2.8 percent. We may not be able to increase your budget by 2.8 percent.

We appreciate tremendously what you and your staff do. It is a world-renowned institution and the quality of your work is absolutely incredible.

How about the Union Square property? That's about $7.3 million. Is that something you have to do, or is there something else you can do that will work for some period of time?

But it's important to distinguish between a rule and between guidance and understand that under a State primacy program, the State has the authority to make its own determination.

Our North Star here has to be to use the abundant resource of natural gas.

Cost-benefit needs to be part of it.

I believe that this is a rule that you are developing and implementing as a result of some conditions in the Appalachian region of the country.

Are you willing to have either you, Mr. Secretary, or your designee come out to my State and actually take a look on the ground at the situation and talk to some of our companies before you proceed?

If we want to continue to develop clean coal technology, we've got to have a realistic rule.

Their concern is in regard to the Synthetic Miner Source Rule. Right now we operate under a consent agreement that expires, or the tribe does, excuse me, they're operating under a consent agreement, that expires at the end of July.