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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 ....
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 ....
Letter to you on august 15 signed by 29 other members listing out specific questions regarding the spell. When can we expect an answer . You have yet to respond. I will im sorry, when did you say you sent that . August 15. Okay, i will double check and well get you a tentative date no, that will be great. Mr. Westerman, mr. Pearce, youre saying youre going to get back to people, thats the frustration of the committee. We hear well get back to you. Sir, i havent seen it and i dont want to give you a date that i have to explain away. Well, terrific if you can get back to us on that we would appreciate it. In regards to transparency you said that epa was examining different sites that could suffer an epa meltdown as we saw at the gold keaton mine. Youd identified ten different mines now but that did not come forward until such time as there was an a. P. Report. How is that feeding in with transparnsy . Im sorry, i dont exactly know the context in which youre referring. The context of the ....
30,000 knowns theres reportedly to be 5200 of those. We are overlaying that information and the information i was going door to door talking to individuals to those who would be willing to be part of a sample. Putting threeperson teams in those homes with a plumber, someone who can actually address how do you take a sample so you do not preflush, its, its a widemouth bottle see pick it up on a routine basis so we can pick it up and tested. We are working with the epa task force to see what type of interval make sense. Will now recognize the gentleman from florida. Thank you mr. Chairman. Its good to follow the young lady from the district because i was here in 95 when we took over the district, put in the control board, at that time if you think flint is bad, the district had hundreds of bodies of indigenous that were stacked like court, they couldnt bury, the kids were getting from a vendor only chicken and rice that were in the districts care. There 60000 people employed by the distr ....
That will have significant gaps in terms of the number of voters just two years ago and i guarantee it will reflect on in my opinion negatively on the kind of policy makers that would make a difference in those issues and Economic Opportunity issues and equality and civil rights issues inside new mexico and in the country. It happened during the last two decades of course the proposition changed the dynamics of the state and the only republican elected to the office the biggest mistake the Latino Community can make is to stay home in protest of whatever it is whether its the administration. Through our vote we send a message to leadership here in washington as to whether or not we are going to be a community and a force to be reckoned with. If we stay home then we become invisible and we are not factored in. [applause] so through our vote we will send a message to was ....