How do we help lift people off the list?

The Tribes often also feel like they can't do that, and if BIA hesitates, that city, that county and that neighborhood has no real solution to something that is becoming a magnet for crime.

We need to stay in close contact with your office as we work through these issues.

Okay, so those recommendations are still pending. Are there any of those that you can talk through today or legislative recommendations to be able to do a fix here, or those are things you can get me in writing and work with our staff?

I think on this particular matter if we can work directly with you and understand where this location is, who is involved, and try and see what we can do, Senator, I think that is the best opportunity.

I want to thank you on behalf of the United States Senate for the sacrifices of him and others who have additionally committed their lives for our freedom.

Typically, a city would go in and just abandon that property, would declare it abandoned and would clear the property.

How do we help with that?

Mr. Chairman, thanks for your leadership in this Committee.

If we can pause there, because that is the Stigler Act, and I want to be able to talk a little bit about the five Tribes.

One of the main goals of the RFS was to get us off any imported energy sources.

So if I remember correctly, and again, it is off the top of my head, about eight million additional acres are now corn that used to not be corn.

President-Elect Trump supports the RFS, and we all know how important that is to markets and to certainty for our farmers.

According to CBO, if the RFS was repealed or if its future mandates were kept at previously proposed 2014 levels, corn-based ethanol production would remain at 13 billion gallons and American consumers would have lower gas prices.

I am exceptionally skeptical that any industry could have a $200 million cost... and that would not be then passed on to the consumer in some ways.

Hopefully in the days ahead we can get some good consistency on numbers and costs.

If we create further uncertainty about the future of the RFS and our commitment to biofuels, it will only serve to slow our research and investment down.

That is your story and you are sticking to it.

the statute itself does not work with the gallons requirement, based on the gallons that we are using.

Mr. Rusco, give us a guess. For the cellulosic, you talk about the multiple generations to be able to move.

If that would the primary fuel out there, then my folks in Oklahoma could not drive their 1978 Silverado Chevy pickup, because they would not have a good fuel option for that as well, and that is the other challenge that is in this.

Mr. Rusco, your report is very thorough. I appreciate that.

It has spurred investment in domestic energy production. It has helped grow our economy throughout the Midwest.

Help us understand the decision for the denial at this point, and to just say no, we are going to deny this.

I encourage you to continue supporting the RFS. Let us look at ways we can further research and development in this industry.