Kendra S. Horn: “Reclaiming my time, may I say to the gentleman from New Jersey, we are not opening the door. The language is very…”

“Reclaiming my time, may I say to the gentleman from New Jersey, we are not opening the door. The language is very specific. The hurdles are quite specific as to the outfalls 1 mile long, 150 feet deep, that must meet all applicable State and local water quality standards and must have an ongoing ocean monitoring plan in place. That is exactly what we have. These charts show that we are way below the level of concern. The question if very simple, folks. For the sake of the ego of EPA, do we have the taxpayers of Los Angeles spend $400 million when it will not improve the situation one iota, because they already meet it? So the full secondary bit has been met in the pre-secondary, and that is why we should not be spending $400 million more.”