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Complaints and act on them. those officers have been there supporting him for several weeks. >> who is in charge? is it the coast guard? is it you? or is it bp? >> the federal on scene coordinator by law is the coordinating official. >> when you make a decision and tell bp to do it, they have no choice. they haved to it. is that right? >> if we issue an administrative order and they fail to comply there are civil and criminal penalties associated. most of the things we are doing are provided to them. if we have to issue a written order, we can do that and there are civil and criminal penalties...

Response to this spill to tailor it specific to the request of the parish presidents, and they all have a different set of issues that they're dealing with and a different set of priorities. to make sure we do it correctly with the response, we placed a coast guard officer with each parish president and that's been working fine for the past couple of weeks. i would ask mr. nungesser if he has a problem with our particular officer, i would be glad to take the list of complaints and act on them. but the officers have been there supporting him at my direction are for several weeks now. >> who is ...