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the science. the state was saying we know the big federal government has a lot of science. we know about the national laboratories. but as a state we want to have some oversight. as part of the negotiation as you both pointed out in your report, the environmental evaluation group was created. these were independent scientists and they walked every step with the federal science scientists along the way. challenged them at times. i think the doctor will talk a lot about this one when he hits the testimony here. so important lessons were learned. i only ask one question. you see how har...

mountain issue, we were closely involved in the work of the blue rib bob commission. we were impressed with the members. the talented staff and the sincere interest in public input. we have asked to maintain and preserve access to the commission website. as for the religions we welcome them all we have the following points. first, reform the nuclear waste fund or reform of the fund is essential for most of the recommendations to occur. next, regardless of yucca mountain we need another reprostory. -- repository. the lessons suggest that consent based sitting approach may get better r...

>> did i state it correctly? your recommendations in support for the idea of moving ahead with identifying consolidation sites does not decide the question of yucca mountain one way or the other. whether we're for yucca mountain -- im accurate to say whether we're for it or against it, we still need to move ahead with consolidation sites and we still need to move ahead as soon as the legislation is passed to begin to identify a second repository? >> absolutely. clearly, the question of what needs to be done with yucca mountain is quite controversial. i think if our commission had bee...

enable us to be a whole lot smarter. or as my father used to say, just take -- just take your smart pills, tom. just take your smart pills. we're going to take the smart pills and you give us a full prescription of those. laura haynes who sits behind me gave me a note. i just want to refer to it briefly here nepquestion goes back to jurisdictions. i show this to senator barrasso. it's very short so i just want to mention this before you all are excused. i believe that some folks are confused about the subcommittee's jurisdiction. and we want to be clear and state very briefly what we...