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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 a viable alternative that medbee statutory requirements. One of the things that ntia is committed to the. To requirements from 2012 . I believe from the original btop program and my understanding is the Mississippi Program didnt ....
Your organizations have contracts with ongoing electrical power . Those costs you dont know how those will be handled . At this point the epa has not conveyed how they would address that particular comment. The conversations we have had with epa have been primarily to get clarification on some of the corrections we pointed out within the proposal itself. Bpa claims of the rules give states flexibility to create their own plans but it appears that overlooks the fact that electricity transmission does not stop at the state borders. Many states including south dakota plant rely on neighboring states to ensure the reliability of the grid. Epas modeling suggest under the 111 d. Proposal wyoming could cut his generation by 7. 5 million megawatts or a million megawatt hours. How will wyoming continue to how will you continue to power the regional economy with cuts like this and is that an accurate statement . As far as how we would continue if we are looking at closing down existing power pla ....