i m 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 wouldn t 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
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 long-term 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 diff
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 i m sorry, when did you say you sent that? august 15. okay, i will double check and we ll get you a tentative date no, that will be great. mr. westerman, mr. pearce, you re saying you re going to get back to people, that s the frustration of the committee. we hear we ll get back to you. sir, i haven t seen it and i don t 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. you d 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? i m sorry, i don t exactly know the context in which
captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. hi everyone i m jeff glor and this is a western edition of the broadcast. if you are anywhere in the middle of the country you are enjoying a serene sunday. anywhere else it gets ict compled. two different complicated. out west, pineapple express spreading central and northern california oregon and washington with rain. first carter evans. for three days san francisco has faced downpours and gale forced winds. keeping utilities youth crews with downed trees and power lines. this is what it looks like inside what s known as the war room at pacific gas and electric where every problem area is plotted out. since the storms first hit more than 300,000 homes and businesses lost power. nearly all have had their electricity restored. the rain also caused long delays at the san francisco airport. with some flights running two and a half hours behind schedule. while northern california is bearing the brunt of this sto