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They act as Emergency Responders with us. The southern ute have been an incredible and incredibly diligent and being embedded in our command center, working on this. The professionalism has been wonderful, so we will make sure they are properly reimbursed for expenses. The 2nd process is the claims process, what damages have it occurred, and we use the federal claims tort act in order to process those claims. How does the federal tort claims act help the navajo . They lost a huge amount of irrigating water which can have longterm devastating effects of drought continues and they do not have the water now or in the future . How can they be made whole . Two things that are happening here as well. We are talking to the navajo about how they get reimbursed. We need to work with the president as well as the Navajo Nation epa to reimbursed for their expenses. The 2nd issue is the claim process. I want to make sure that we are all aware that the reimbursement process is quite different. While
There was pressure buildup at the Gold King Mine. They made a judgment that turned out to be wrong. Whether constitutes Due Diligence and factors, thats what the department will have to advise us. We will follow up to see if there were mistakes made, if they could have avoided this or if there was other mistakes. Thank you. I read a long and detailed testimony to be offered later he points out concerns about the 3 million gallons but also about whats coming in the years to come and the Navajo Nation will need. Is there any reason to think that this is more than the trigger for this attention . I think it has raised visibility of these issues in a way that im hoping something good can come out of it so we will be better off in terms of how we manage these sites moving forward. Weve been working with the navajo for years. We will continue to do that. We will address concerns that they have identified as best we can. We now know the water may not be at the level it needs to be so that we
Epa is only involved in actually a small percentage of those. Why . Because the authority to look at these is spread among a number of agencies, and epa can you break it down so that we have an idea of what the problem really is with some of these mines that may affect the health and welfare of our communities . We can do our best but i can tell you that the ones we follow are the ones on the National Priorities list and the ones where we work with states to address what we consider to be an imminent threat or a need for emergency response. The upper animus was in that category. I would like to see if you can answer some of this for the whole committee. I am glad mr. Bishop is worried about fish and wildlife and the endangered species. Thats something that is near and dear to a lot of us. With that, your budgeting. How much budget do you require to be able to do a job to maybe look at avoiding what happened at las animus . We have an entiermevironmentd that allows us to tap for the res
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