James Lankford

We absolutely need encrypted technology because we are very exposed.

This is the latest technological battle we're going to deal with.

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.

The best thing that we can do is to be able to get our technology up to speed so that we have fewer instances like this

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.

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.

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

This will be settled somewhere around June 25, there will be a decision up here one morning on the website.

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.

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.

Could the entire requirement be produced overseas?

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…

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.

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.

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

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.

We have a mandate to use more ethanol and a coming mandate to decrease the ozone, even if it has some effects on it.

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

So, the question is, how did you do that estimate, and the method of that, and the expectations, because biodiesel is now in open amounts.

And, you asked about the E85, as well. You have this assumption that E85 is going to dramatically increase in usage, even 6 months from now.

I do not want to sound like Douglas MacArthur all of a sudden, but, yes, to be able to come back and forth.

It is more of an aspirational goal rather than an actual, we see this and so we anticipate this use?

I do not believe that the EPA is doing that. But, I hope that we can work through these issues.

Let me take the side of the EPA and say that the cellulosic was a great theory and there are a lot of people experimenting with it.