include that vital
information
into a repository someplace;
I don't
idea of what we can do with
it without having an
think we can do
but
the
present resources, and what is left literally to be done.
CHAIRMAN MOSELEY:
MR. ZIMMERMAN:
Mr. Zimmerman, can you educate this for me?
But I think it would be helpful along the
Not likely.
lines that you mentioned,
if we could get a budgetary breakdown of what
your money is going for.
I mean, you have only so much money, and people
are saying, as I said, it is going to take you 15 years at the rate you are
going.
Now
if
you
are
half
spending
your
money
to
support
the
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lawsuits -- we don't look at, I think in terms of the ORERP, the comparison
11
of a dollar spent on soil sampling versus a buck spent to help in the liti-
12
gation.
13
something
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particularly,
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litigant assessments and that sort of stuff.
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we got a projection of how much?
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support litigation for the next ten years?
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any money left to do the functions that at least some of us understood were
19
the primary functions of CIC, which were to gather them so they wouldn't be
20
lost or destroyed and make them available to the public and the ORERP.
In other words, the money that funds that litigation is not really
I
we,
think
we've
thinking
been
been
dealing
with
although it is recognized that you are spending time doing
Maybe we should have some projections on that.
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CHAIRMAN MOSELEY: Bruce, comments?
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MR.
CHURCH:
Maybe it would be helpful if
It's going to cost you $3 million to
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we've
If so, are you going to have
Let me make a comment about what you just said, Mike,
with respect to litigation.
I fully anticipate restoration of that type of
25 -resource this year, and I fully anticipate that the litigation requirements
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are going to be dealt with on an agency-need basis and really not a problem
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for the DAAG to consider. - I think the problem that DAAG needs to consider
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and be vitally interested in is the fact the resources and the mission of
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