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Which seem to come up almost annually . There is always something that comes up where science can likely inform and i think this was the case where we did quite a bit of air sampling and air modeling. We did really quite a bit of support for japan and i think there was a very positive story that came out of this understanding, what happened at the site and what it means to japan and u. S. Citizens as well or to the continental United States. There are other places. We have been working for a good year or so on trying to look at governance models. How we work, how many agencies can, and partner with us at our National Laboratories to solve some of their interesting problems. What is the way we can engage other agencies to answer their Strategic Issues using the tools we have like oak ridge or other National Laboratories. We had a conversation with Janet Napolitano on december 18 on this, saying that a Partnership Model as part of our effort to develop a stronger strategic relationship b
Security. And, lastly, and this is important particularly in light of the metcalf incident, that has been talked about here, and theyre in the early stages of this but the, they are working on working on a project to develop security, security protections, physical protections and others for substations. So thats going to be extremely critical also. Were very proud of the work that is done at the Idaho National laboratory. Like i said they are reknowned when it comes to Nuclear Energy but there are these new areas that they are developing and Grid Security is certainly one of the things that theyre going to be focusing on. The reason i wanted to say what ive said about this is i want to make sure that everyone in the industry, everyone in the government agencies, knows that these facilities are available because sometimes they have a tendency to fly under the radar. So i want to state that for the record and thank you for making the time available, madam chairman. Thank you, senator ri
Facility. This is the geography and so on. In addition, these and other agencies in the dhs and the we i have done a 13 city tour around the u. S. And canada to explain the lessons and local Law Enforcement is one of the main attendees as i understand it at these meetings because as he said it could happen in any community. Thank you for the question, senator. The most important and most Effective Security measure is the relationship between the Utility Company and Law Enforcement and we recognize that years ago which is why some of us have a standard that buyers if there is any issues of incidents related to cybersecurity that must be reported to local Law Enforcement and we require companies to establish contact with the Law Enforcement. I think having that is very important and we also participated in the outreach. A third of it was in response to First Responders and i think Going Forward and i envisioned facilitating oneonone with Utility Companies and Law Enforcement and First Re
Thank you, madam chair. And thank you for holding this hearing. I appreciated. I know this is a focus, this panel on cybersecurity but weve also talked about reliability and a new the next panel can focus on the. I appreciate your willingness to move forward on figuring so quickly after your taking the chairmanship. I like to ask a couple of questions because we have great experts here who may be can give us a preview of what were going to next also for us to be able to compare and contrast with her from some of the industry folks. First i guess, chairman lafleur id like to hear from you a little bit about what you think we ought to be doing in terms of reliability. You were quoted as having said am also very concerned about the price both the applet magnitude of price spikes and increase we saw this when it when we see the ice spikes its a symptom protecting reliability is causing this issue. Can you elaborate on that . Is that an accurate quote . Yes, but always in the context. We ha