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and to be taking a aggressive measures to insure that this type of incident does not happen again. i believe administrator jackson. good afternoon. i m lisa jackson. administrator of the environmental protection agency. over the past days epa has mobilized to respond to this crisis. we re working closely with dhs, with the coast guard and of course with the white house to monitor the situation and address environmental impacts. first, epa is providing full support to the united states coast guard. as you heard the rear admiral explain, the coast guard is in the lead and epa on the national response team provides support. we ve moved our initial resources to the command center in louisiana and we ll be moving additional resources there today and tomorrow as well as to alabama and mississippi. we have stood up an air monitoring program. that program has begun already. we ll soon be getting information on the results of the first samples out and on our web site.