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[inaudible conversations] good morning this hearing will come to order. Its the day to do the environment subcommittee with fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. And acting chief Financial Officer welcome to both of you. The president s request 2021 to 66 billion to the epa and 27 percent cut hello fy 2020. This seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve in a broad bipartisan basis fy 2024 example to request to eliminate 30 mine Million Dollars of new funding we provided to the epa and requests with Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 percent and 9 milliondollar cuts fy 2020 also 870 million from the 3 billion we invested to rebuild our crumbling Water Infrastructure. I held a listening section in st. Paul they would lose 56 percent of federal funding and approximately 75 percent of the cats were to go through the minnesota pollution control that air pollution monitoring for the communities back home and clean water action said it would be a
[inaudible conversations] good morning. Today is the day we will examine the president s fiscal year for the epa joining with morning is administrator wheeler and acting chief Financial Officer. Welcome to both of you. Fiscal year 2021 the president s 66 billion to the epa but this request the presidency of what you were able to achieve on the fy 2020. And then to eliminate the new funding we provided to address pfas and the Clean Energy Funding grants c by 47 percent at 409 million fy 2020 also has money from the 3 billion we invested with our nations crumbling Water Infrastructure. Recently held a listening session and they would lose and what at what happened of these cuts were to go through the pollution control also proposed cuts to the clean water grant act air pollution and monitoring to have our communities back home included it would be an absolute catastrophe for clean water. And i directly heard about concerns with the budget with the pfas pollution it could be truly devasta
Might happen to this property, and it feels difficult to make a decision based on speculation. President melgar commissioner moore. Commissioner moore thank you for expressing it as well as you did, commissioner johnson, because i say it slightly different, although i say the same. And then, i feel resonance in our Environmental Review officer, miss gibson, in stating there is an impact, and the mitigation which has so little teeth to it, that we cant believe that it would work, and that is basically where we are. Its basically i dont know. Ive never found myself in that kind of a situation. President melgar director rahaim. Director rahaim so i think maybe a couple of things that need to be clarified to the board. The boards decision was that they found that there may be and the operative word here is there may be an environmental impact. The language that mr. Drury put up on the screen is there may be an impact, and directed them to do an environmental analysis. And that impact was f
Nominate you, and i wanted to know if you wanted to come up and share any thoughts with us. Thank you so very, very much, chair ronan supervisors. Good morning, and i wept tmeantto say happy new year when supervisor walton was here. I have been thinking about being on this committee for a while. I just had to wait for things to clear off my plate. I had to graduate for my doctorate. But ive always been watching this committee because i not only have lived in district 9 for so long, since 2004, 2005, but also have lived in district 10, since the 90s, so this area and its growth and expansion, and the environmental issues, but also, you know, the transportation issues that have come across between district 10 and district 9 are on the forefront of my mind all of the time, as well as the area my area of expertise, which is education. And not just any type of education, but my doctoral degree is in education for speakers of other languages. And also adult learners. So what i hope to bring