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Welcome one and all. Great to see our witnesses. Great to be here with senator johnson, and well call this hearing to order. I appreciate the effort of all of you to get here today. Im glad were having the hearing today, and not tomorrow. If we were having it tomorrow we might not be having a hearing. Todays hearing, as you know, is focused on the costs of not being prepared for extreme weather events, and exploring the ways that our federal government can increase resiliency in our communities,...

Agreements that are being worked out with some of the cemetery and those are taking longer than anticipated. We have a forecast of 22 months beyond the approved schedule and has an additional cost of 10. 4 million. The team is looking for ways to pull that back through looking for additional, to remove access constraints during construction, but that is the current forecast and we are looking into how to mitigate that further. Moving to the calaveras stem in the project. Of course you have the e...

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Local with 16 projects worth nearly 2. 7 billion in construction actively. We completed construction on 62 of 82 projects. We only have a few projects left of the ground water restoring recovery and the pipeline which will be going in in the spring. We have a number of accomplishments to report this last quarter. As has been reported in the last quarter we passed the instruction of the program. You can clearly see in august 2012, we had a much higher rate of work hours than we do in december 13t...

The committee did their work. It was in the full committee. What are your views on this issue . Well, congressman, i think it is important to point out that we approach the institute of medicine to ask for advice on how to structure a system that will provide assistance at a women, infant and children. They took the job seriously and said we should focus on food were products that would that were healthy and not normally used by women, infant and children. The issue with potatoes and the average...

News. Senator rockefeller and the chairman of the Senate Intelligence committee at the time agreed to hold a hearing, not hold a hearing but agree to an investigation and they immediately asked her if she would testify. She said she would which made her witness before a committee. They couldnt prosecute her without obstructing investigation of congress. I have never had a source get arrested or prosecuted and i want to keep it that way. Jim lee told cspan 8 15 and we have so many questions out h...

Billion in crops. Billionl protect 165 in livestock, poultry, and specialty crops as a result of this budget. Ag will continue to support 140 billion in agricultural exports which helps to support one million jobs at home. The food and nutrition Assistance Programs will benefit nearly 47 million americans under the snap program. 8. 7 women, infant and children under the wic program. Thellion children under summer feeding programs. The food safety budget will provide assistance in detecting our f...

Assist and help in preserving our agricultural production, and expand new uses and opportunities for agricultural products. And we will also focus on an effort to do a better job of addressing the challenges that the poultry industry in particular face with disease. We have antiquated facilities, which is, frankly, true of our entire Agricultural Research service. We need a new and creative way to address the challenges of our infrastructure, and one way we can do that is by taking a look at our...

Thoughts on that. Because in some south, east agriculture has a broad portfolio and many farms have multiple crops. And farming throughout the country, most farm families have a lot of farm income. And the second part of my question is, when do you expect to issue proposed regulations on the actively engaged interpretation . Particularly given the equal important competing issues that youll have to tackle, including implementation of the disaster programs and the arc programs, which by the end o...

Current forecast and we are looking into how to mitigate that further. Moving to the calaveras stem in the project. Of course you have the existing dam on the foreground and the hill and the current conditions. You may recall that we had landslide a in the upper portion of the slope. That has been largely removed and that slope has been excavated about 500 feet down. There is a remnant of that slide left in place. At the time of discovery of that slide, there was this area b that we also knew co...