By your television provider. Now an update on cleanup efforts related to water contamination at u. S. Military bases. A task force was created in july last year to address the issue. Military representatives on the task force testify about cleanup efforts, coordination between various governmental agencies involved and research on a safe chemical replacement. Ladies and gentlemen, i call this committee of the readiness subcommittee to order. Ive got to do the boilerplate, so stand by. Ill do it as quickly as i possibly can. I would like to welcome the members who are joining todays markup remotely. Those members are reminded they must be visible on screen within the Software Platform for the purposes of identifying verification when joining the proceeding, establishing and maintaining a quorum participating in the proceeding and voting. Members participating remotely must continues to use the Software Platform video function while attending the proceedings unless they experience connec
That are often times not at the table for our public process. Our overarching goal for this activity two was to ask people to connect their environmental values to our programs, and think critically about where we could improve and overlap. And now i would like to introduce my colleague asia meshack, our senior strategist, and outreach and communications. Shell be talking about key themes, our takeaways from this. Thanks, doug, and the rest of the team for that explanation there. Hay the ground work for a bit of what i am going to cover which is to give you the high level takeaways that we extracted from our conversations with the Community Members. Of course, theres much more detail to go into and to be explored in later conversations, but just so you guys have a sense of what conclusions or what sort of takeaways we were able to come out with with our conversations. I missed my clicker here. So d looks like we have a little fault with our visuals here. But as doug, anthony, and donni
The team for that explanation there. Hay the ground work for a bit of what i am going to cover which is to give you the high level takeaways that we extracted from our conversations with the Community Members. Of course, theres much more detail to go into and to be explored in later conversations, but just so you guys have a sense of what conclusions or what sort of takeaways we were able to come out with with our conversations. I missed my clicker here. So d looks like we have a little fault with our visuals here. But as doug, anthony, and donnie have gone into, this was fundamentally a qualitative exercise. Fundamentally about dialogue with our Community Members, understanding through that format where their values were, and how our program intersected with that with their understanding of the citys priorities were. But thanks to the note takers and thanks to the writing exercise that the participants undertook in parallel with the conversations that were sort of volleying between th
Provisions. There are many parts of the act that premise regulation based on the acnims quite quickly quite deeply, best achieveable control neck noling backed. Maximum achieveable controlled technology. Several others for various kipeds of sources and various kinds of situations. That can be helpful to industry who are typically able to develop some of those sorts of technologies and have a discussion with regulators such as eacha that its frankly harder for citizens to become involved in because its such a high technical level often. I think another point to be made about industry is Companies Often want certaintyty as much as they want and i think thats a difficulty that has come out in a lot of the environmental laws. Host they want to know how does this affect my bottom line. Guest and they want to be able to plan and to invest and say, do we need to put 1 million into this scrubber system or do i not . Guest its more like a billion dollars. So it is really quite expensive for som
And other guys struggling to et a cplus and was lucky. Thats why they give the test in school. Thats Something Congress has a tendency to overlook or dont care about, either one. So theres a place for everybody in our job market, every level, and that needs to be more respected and taken into consideration. And the last thing i want to say is i appreciate cspan and thanks for taking my call. Host Educational Attainment. Guest the increased interest and commitment to Early Childhood education as part of this discussion is so important because the ability to make sure that kids get to school, ready to learn, we know that that has really strong returns to their outcomes in the long run and can improve Educational Attainment and Career Outcomes in earnings over the long run. So you cant talk enough about investing in Early Childhood from birthday. A lot of the interesting, collective impact models to education to improve, to decrease gaps in attainment across race, ethnicity, income, to ap