Jack Reed

It is necessary, and it is such an important part of our economy that we need to keep investing in that program.

50 percent of these new fees are required to be used to improve permit reviews and related oversight activity.

I think, in the context particularly of the emphasis on making sure we get these fracking regulations done right...

I wish we did. It would make it easier.

We are pushing hard on the hiring of the inspectors and moving forward with the program that you have enabled us to implement.

Thank you very much, Mr. Secretary.

This subcommittee can show that the Congress can still do some things well.

Despite a political scene that is so divisive and dysfunctional at so many levels, Americans from all walks of life and political persuasions cherish our national parks and want them protected.

I support the administration's commitment to fully funding the program in the near future.

The LWCF should be fully funded at $900 million annually--the congressionally authorized level.

Continued investment in international conservation will improve our economic security, while helping our domestic species to flourish.

I would first like to thank Chairman Jack Reed and Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski for your efforts last year to appropriate $155 million to the National Endowment for the Arts.

I am concerned that EPA proposed eliminating the Beach Grant Program in your fiscal year 2013 budget request.

What are the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plans regarding the two proposed funding changes to the State and Local Air Quality Grants?

Thank you, Senator Murkowski. Thank you, Administrator, for your testimony.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

The bottom line is, how do you continue to maintain the legal requirements under the 1990 legislation?

Well, you know, that was my presumption too. So I think if you could clarify that, that would be helpful to us.

I think we all recognize, and it's explicit in the comments, that we don't want to trade access to the very valuable petroleum and carbon resources at the cost of degraded water supplies and environmental problems.

There's a real fear that this formula change could significantly disadvantage, as well as the shifting of authorities.

I've received letters from the directors of nine State environmental agencies, and I think Senator Murkowski and others have received the letters.

Thank you and Ms. Bennett for your work with the coastal watersheds of Region 1, in particular, in Narragansett Bay.

The President has been clear that the Congress needs to avoid a sequester by passing a balanced deficit reduction.

I want to thank you both, Administrator Jackson and Ms. Bennett, for your personal attention to this issue.

One of the ways that you try to minimize the risk is hazardous fuels reduction.