A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from West Virginia. Mr. Manchin mr. President , i rise also to speak about the stream buffer rule. I want everyone to know the state of West Virginia has been a heavylifting state, we have been an extraction state. We do the mining. We mine the coal that built the steel that built the guns and defended us and gave us basically the great country we have. We have done everything. There is no one in West Virginia that wants dirty water or dirty air, no one in oklahoma, no one in any extraction state. Pitting people against each other is just wrong. The way this comes down is just strictly, its strictly a duplicative rule. The stream buffer rule that was put in place. My colleagues know last year the department of interior office, Surface Mining reclamation and enforcement basically decided to send its final stream protection rule to the white house without fulfilling obligations and even a request by myself to please contact, work with the local authorities, work with the states that are involved. They did nothing. They would not reach out to us whatsoever. This was one of many of president obamas administrations regulations that absolutely crippled West Virginia families and businesses with no plan to replace or create new jobs or help these communities. Communities. Not to be is this the scope of potential and back the rulemaking was executed that the rules of the department of interior must be based on comprehensive data availableof to the stakeholders particularly want with new jobs all we ask is the department of Environmental Protection and tell us whatnt not is working work with us but not once did we ever get that courtesy. He those opaline to the implementation in any meaningful way. Onal but throughout this process despite congressional intent they should not be assuming duplicate rules 11 such as the clean water act. Ed has over 400 changes to the Surface Mining reclamation act that duplicate those existing practices that the army corps already oversaw so basically we have to agencies that have to docess want then it goes through one epa one with puerto rico me core ball why would you want to duplicate . Duplicat change the personnel or get rid of the agency during my time in the senate i having committed and that is why i introduced this approval to unto this harmful duplicative regulation i am a firm belief for between the environment and economy s and everything should have a balanced and you should try to find that balance but when you put it in over riccio role overreaching role that creates havoc you cannot hire enoughs lawyers to get through the paperwork of one. But never once do we think we should discard the clean water act or the Clean Air Act we will cherish buses by working together just dont pds over the head with a hammer the consequence of this regulation will have far reaching impact as they think the senator from oklahoma adjust said it must virginia we have all of the above the energy to find new technologies we can depend we depend on coal, naturality gas and Nuclear Power for i the majority of our energy. And we should be developingha their rubles also. But if if you believe that will run the country then tell me what four hours of the day you want yourhe electricity to work or what for hours to want to heat your home bucks what for hours to take for granted because you could not have the base flow. That is the fact if you dont like it then continued to work to make a better im sorry the world does not work that way your lights which does not work that way. So a on behalf of the West Virginians for them to vote in support of these overreaching rules that do nothing but create havoc with the citizens of our great country. Mr. President with the gravity of moving forward it is limited in terms of then filibuster rules and his extraordinary and necessary had the previous and Administration Listened working with the utilitiesth we would not be standing here now. To have a specific intent of these mining practices in an appellation up. I dont know that any of those ever been to north dakota but our mining practices are compared tonv appalachia so a former assistant secretaryse schneider to take a look for herself with she can now sheor heard directly from the north Dakota Utilities and regulators and Coal Companies she saw how our operations differ one in my state is a National Leader in reclamation and the input of those back home from my state quite honestly was not taken seriously. Those stakeholders estimate it could cost one coal producers in north cologneance 50 million to eight new the in additional compliance cost with more than 600 million tons ofn affordable coal. I will tell you when you look at the landscape of north dakota to show how the rules makes all of that no sense in terms of resources actl or the difficulty of reclamation then needs to be dead in a situation, the elites concluded new can come to as a net result is to shut down coal mining. It isnt about clean air or clean water or protecting the air it was about shutting down a coal mine so this abundant resources throughout North Central north dakota those communities that rely on those good paid jobs for t lawenforcement and other Community Resources to help middleclass to thrive ins the state of martha dakota. One size fits all does not make sense if you look at the application of this rule bef it clearly makes no sensea those streams that dominate West Virginia zero landscape are nothing like the rolling perjurys of roads dakota. Promg how anybody thinks that is a rule that has been promulgated tim logically be applied in the logic completely escapes me. Condos that keep livestock away in north if dakota we are a pragmatist than zero need to return the land to the same condition usually conferred that to farm or ranch land look at this and understand what reclamation looks like. This used to be a big hole in the ground producing call and now restoring this the biggest challenge we havent crossed dakota is convincingr to the regional landowner we have to put a back the way it was. Ate tha you can tell me the company that did this and the commitment made to reclamation was not honored. It is not working in north dakota. Fix a to have that one size fits all regulation that will cost 50 million and hundreds of jobs in bistate this is why people get frustrated and do not a understand why washington d. C. Thinks they know little we want and we arery recognized to do the best reclamation in the country and that award and the of coal industry working with government on regulations to improve environmental safety and standards the weve never had been issued with updating this regulation they just asked the former Administration Listen to them when they see the work that is doing the deal was done in haste so they could check the mark if you want to believe it in the ground and have the courage to come here and say that they will not extract one fossil fuel i have Great Respect for senator marquis to was just here hell we have made process because of the conversion from coal mining to natural gas but while we talk about this would not have been made possible if not for industry practicing utilizing natural gas. B this is a structured movement using bogus Regulation Without having the courage to lead fianna, spat policy for word which is leave it in the ground i want to pursue peaceful leaving it in the ground policy what that does to women and children put that means for reliable redundancy and he will lead the market decide the bid was facilitated by thet compromise that dealt whiff o of lolling for the export of crude oil in exchange for more permanency. We can achieve a Public Policy result if we worken together about a hidden agenda. This was wrong and structured wrong with attacking industry. I will tell you i have been no there and i have then a regulator. This is is not unique this is above reclamation looks like in north dakota and to suggest somehow we are contaminating this beautiful resources wrong on so many levels. It cost us jobs and is wrong on so many levels. This is a process only to be used very rarely so i stand with my friend to helpit sponsor this continuing resolution we will fight for industry and common sense rica elation to protect this beautiful resources. I yield the floor. Been