Jeff Bingaman

Dr. Triay, will EM meet its milestones at WIPP and Los Alamos?

Dr. Triay, the NNSA fiscal year 2011 budget request lists the demolition and decontamination of the old Chemistry and Metallurgy Research (CMR) Replacement facility between $200 to $350 million.

My understanding is that for this year the effort will examine principally the non-nuclear components.

Mr. D'Agostino, you list out-year cost estimates of the B-61 gravity bomb totaling approximately $1.68 billion.

You testified to this subcommittee, last year, that the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSC) was an important tool to help maintain the stockpile.

There has been a lot of interest and concern there in northern New Mexico about this issue of possible contamination of water.

We canceled the approach that the lab was proposing to the Federal Government, which was a third-party-financed approach.

I expect, in calendar year 2012--whether it bridges into fiscal year 2012 or 2013--I'd have to double check.

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…

We thought that that issue had been resolved with the colloquy on the floor and with report language that we--at least I read to clarify that there was no intent for CFTC to take over regulation of matters that had been jurisdictional at…

It is critical that these companies continue to have access to the OTC market for these hedges.

This is an important effort, both to create high quality jobs in the near term and also to begin to reverse the course that we've been on of under investing in our country's competitiveness in clean energy technology.

It's also important that we be sure these investments are the right investments.

The energy infrastructure needs of the country are so substantial that I think we can only regard these investments as a downpayment.

Hopefully, we can stop robbing LWCF so that we can support more of these projects in the future.

I'm not wedded to my proposal, Senator Landrieu, and if there are other people who have better ideas, we ought to figure out a way of moving forward with those ideas.

These conservation efforts are just about protecting, as we all know, about protecting the landscape for us to gaze at.

I certainly support the Chairman's legislation to help do that.

$900 billion, yes, were being credited to the Land and Water Conservation Fund but it never gets there.

We need to move forward with getting ourselves out of the great dependence that we have on foreign oil.

We need to address the issues of global warming, which are real.

Water really is the lifeblood of our communities and that we need to do a lot more with respect to how we protect that very precious resource.

President Obama has made it clear from day one that what he wants to do is to have a comprehensive energy plan.

Onshore oil production increased 14 percent in 2009.

The proposed budget includes funding increases for the Land and Water Conservation Fund, for renewable energy projects, and for climate change adaptation.