Colorado . Yes we do. With Water Quality engineers so we worked collaborative leave with the epa and others to provide those resources to have a colorado solution. Part of your job is the people of the state of colorado that the water will be saved. Does it concern you that as the chairman noted as a followup to my question in the there was zero engineers at the epa working on the mind that had the high potential to blow out . With the state of colorado handled it that way . It concerns me but that doesnt mean they were not involved in some capacity. You are in the government. It is your job to have oversight. Wouldnt have been prudent for the epa to have that oversight to make good choices before we had a catastrophe . I dont know if they rely and other resources. He would handle the very differently . Our department has its own engineers for that situation. While we were talking, if you have the unlimited budget going forward, would you be supportive of the goods and your chin legisl
Im just trying to get to the. Of urgency. In terms of your position, your job, you are the one setting this up. When we are looking through your documents saying there is a potential for a blowout that is why we were there wouldnt it have been prudent to make sure how much water was behind the wall . That is one of the issues, whether we took all the steps that were prudent. Can you understand the frustration, the position frustration, the position you put yourself in as being enforcers, experts in the field, and you are saying this is aa mystery and we are having to look back and see what went wrong . This is my district. I have talked to engineers, minors of work in that area. They would not have proceeded the way that the epa did. Let me save you some time you have zero mining engineers. Our committee has more mining engineers than the epa. Mr. Hardy. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I would like to know how many hydrological engineers you have on your team . I do not know that answer geolo
We do that through our rfp process. How would we know what that experience and process is if we potentially dont have the experience in our own staff to be able to hire that type of contractor to understand what you need in that process . Im not assuming that we dont have expertise to understand. I would like that answer to that question. Through this process, when a mine is open and it has gone on for at least in the state of nevada for 60, 70, 80 years. You have to provide documentation and environmental process. What happens to those records that are provided by those mine folks. What happens to that information . They have to provide to the epa. Any information that is provided. Do you believe that would be appropriate to the investigation of this mine to handle the situation before we hire a contractor to go do something . Whatever appropriate steps we should take should be documented. I think those questions should all be asked before you start that process. I believe there has b
Amy as the republicans engage in another primary debate, this one in South Carolina, we will go to columbia, South Carolina, does it with tom turnipseed, who is a National Director of segregationist alabama governor George Wallaces 1968 president ial campaign, but has since become a civil rights attorney and social justice activist. Well also speak with nation magazine publisher katrina vanden heuvel, not only about the republican bait debate, but also for only the third time in its 150year history, the nation magazine has endorsed a candidate in the democratic primary. Then to the water crisis in flint, michigan. It is an emergency. The cdc and the pediatrics say levelis no safe of lead. It is an emergency. Amy protesters fill the State Capitol in lansing, calling on Governor Rick Snyder to resign over the flint water contamination crisis. We will get the latest from the doctor who helped expose the lead poisoning, mona hannaattisha, as snyder has asked president obama to declare a fe
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