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February 23 has come and gone and the annual report has not been given . Im not sure the question you are asking. To whom is it referred . I them with the gao. Oh. You are are all over saying it, right . You are the accountability office. We have done our first audit which is what im here talking about today sir. What im concerned about what it alarm you all that they might not be able to meet the person that needs as far as personnel . Thats all they have been able to hire. We understand and someone else enter this . I can certainly respond to that. First of all the annual report actually has...

Senator as you know there were originally seven Pilot Projects that we looked at. For them were approved in three of them are not approved including the 70 Million Dollar mississippi grant. We were deeply disappointed as well because he wanted to try to make this work but at the end of the day the state in nta couldnt agree on terms because the states plan didnt provide the necessary level of detail we needed to meet the statutory requirements. As you know under the btop program there were specific statutory requirements that this had to meet and the mississippi plan that came forward was not ...

Why not insist on a period of two or three years . Mr. Chairman, we think that a oneyear breakout time, not only is sufficient but is quite conservative. We believe that with the verification and inspections and monitoring well insist on in any agreement, that would give us more than enough time not only to detect any abuse of the agreement but also to act on it. If you look what various experts said, many have said that a far lesser period of time would be sufficient to detect and act on any violations well, let if i can just add to this very quickly. One year is conservative. First of all th...

Forward, i have been focused like the laser on trying to help the country get to a Better Safety posture when it comes to the movement of crude by rail. Su the point we have taken 24 shortterm measures that were thought about as bridges longterm answer which is ultimately a rule on this. Just to cut to the chase, you have to have a comprehensive approach to is this issue. There is all lost in the news about hank cars and tank car standards. The cape cod is that mitigation device. Is not a device designed to prevent an accident an accident for some period of time. We have to have a prevention s...

On my part . Congressman, the action that the administration took obviously was to try within the law, within the authorities we have to remove restrictions that we thought were counterproductive, and if anything working against the goal of getting the kind of change in cuba that we all want which is a Movement Towards giving human rights and other issues of importance greater attention. I think that, you know, the transactions between the u. S. And cuban parties will be governed by law so there will be things like food sales. The payments will be easier for companies to comply with and purcha...