Thank you. Thanks for all your preparation and being here.

I do not know what kind of feedback you have had so far on this, and this is just one of those rolling--once things get hard, they just continue to get harder for a while.

Should this moratorium on authorizations continue, the agency will have up to 23 systems that have not been subject to a thorough security controls assessment.

The very rapid path that you had to take to deal with credit monitoring, to be able to notify and provide credit monitoring for 4 million people at this point, had to come together very quickly.

I have letters already on the record from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), for instance, and a tremendous number of employees that live in my district that have asked just some very basic questions.

There is a systemic problem there, obviously, of trying to find out why they weren't already through the authorization, to make sure that authorization is done on time and on schedule.

in the next couple of days, the Supreme Court is going to rule on a case that will have a long-lasting impact not only on just what health care is going on in this country but a long-lasting impact on how the law is to be interpreted. This…

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While there are lots of folks experimenting with switchgrass and wood and with stalks and with algae and other great ideas, so far, that is actually not a technology that exists.

The concern is the--let us say 2014, 2015, 2016 are all finalized November 30, so we have that out.

In 2014, CBO, when they studied it, said if the mandate went away on corn-based ethanol, their study said 13 billion gallons would continue to be used.

I really appreciate you being here and this ongoing conversation.

So, this is just going to be a large cost issue for a lot of communities and I am trying to figure out how EPA is going to address that.

What I want to try to get is a percentage or the method of your counting on the small percentage of biodiesel that cannot handle lower temperatures.

the reset is coming and it is coming extremely quickly.

Could the entire requirement be produced overseas?

If we can do that in a month, where we can come back and say, let us at least get the schedule and so we will know where things are going and give you enough time to be able to lay that out, that would be very helpful to us to get some…

CBO estimated, if the mandate went away, we would still stay at about 13 billion gallons of corn-based ethanol, even without the mandate.

The proposed volume that I see here, somewhere around 206 million gallons for 2017, I believe the mandate is somewhere around four billion gallons for that year.

If this was about protecting the environment and American energy options, was the intent... how that affects the actual amounts and the targets.

I would like that to be in the set of options that a community could have to make a decision.

But, would there be the possibility that in that portfolio of options, that a community could say if they are 0.2 outside of the ozone level, one of the options that would be on the table is that they do not have to use as much ethanol in…

But, would you agree on the cellulosic, we are going to decrease that number by at least 50 percent----

As we are looking on the horizon here, 2022 is not that far away anymore.

How are you trying to split the two there, to say that this part can basically be used in El Paso, Texas, and Southern Arizona year round but everywhere else, it is not going to be used year round?