On this issue of NNSA's authority and your efforts to accomplish the requirements that you have for EM there, would it make more sense to have a separate EM contract for the cleanup work at Los Alamos, instead of having to go through the NNSA to try to get them to get this done?
Bingaman questions the efficiency of NNSA's authority in cleanup efforts.
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