Once again, live for a hearing on last months waste water spill at the Gold King Mine in colorado. A couple of house committees this morning will hear testimony on capitol hill from epa Administrator Gina Mccarthy and a number of tribal officials from the Navajo Nation, just one area affected by that spill. The spill contaminated rivers in kol co colorado, new mexico and utah and in the Navajo Nation. Yesterday, Gina Mccarthy testified before a Senate Committee and she defended the epas response to the spill and their cleanup efforts. The epa has suspended cleanup work and site investigations at ten polluted mining complexes in four states because of conditions that are similar to those that led to the spill in colorado. The four sites are in colorado, three in california. A couple in montana and one in missouri. This hearing should get under way in just a moment. This is live coverage on cspan3. Committee on oversight and government reform and the committee on nagtural resources have
It would feel to the people who built silverton. When you are traveling a lot through colorado, you never stop when youre in one of these jobs is. A favorite place for me is is the hotel thats right on the banks of the animas river, the double tree there in durango. If you get a room on the back, you open up the doors, and you can hear the river going by. There is nothing quite like it. Let me first say, as mr. Corra was saying, this community is open for business. Theres lots to do in the winter and the summer months. People shouldnt take the long lesson from what were trying to do here. You said this wok us up. In southwest colorado, thats the heart of the issue Going Forward. We need to clean up the water from preventing future blowouts. I wonder if you could use an opportunity to talk about how the Business Community in durango is thinking differently about this. What did you wake up to and what can Congress Help do to help tackle this problem. All right. Thank you for that. I thin
To. To follow up with respect with the fema certified with as implemented the Flood Mapping Program with deifies three council. It was created in 2012 to the point in time that it has not yet established by a fema so what is the timeline for that very Important Council to begin reviewing and improving the accuracy . If we refer to the fema flood map . Those rules were created we solicited the applications and i dont have the data but were in the process of implementing that so there was a solicitation. I just have to get you you could tell from many members on the subcommittee and across the country, the issues involving for flood mapping and the law that was signed into law last week are so very critical across the country and we want to work with you to try to ease the pain that this is causing you and so many homeowners across the country. With that, i want to thank you so much for your valuable testimony. It is so clear to me and anyone listening that your local, state, and federal
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States, tribes and, others to assess and clean up contaminated properties. Its an environment and Public Works Committee hearing is about two hours. [background noises] i call this hearing to order. Senator i call this hearing to order. Good morning, one and all. Senator capito, good to see you. Thank you for helping us pull this hearing together, this important hearing. Let me discuss the Environmental Protection agencys Brownfields Program as we begin to work on the programs of reauthorization. For nearly three decades now, brownfields has proven to be an important source of Helpful Community forced to contend with. The Program Provides federal assistance for communities to clean up contain him unaided we most recently reauthorized appropriations for this program with a strong bipartisan support about five years ago. I think it was 2018. Its time now to review the state of the Brownfields Program and to examine what works well, to identify potential ways to update the program so it c