chairman, ranking member connell nolley. i appreciate the opportunity to be here today and talk to you about state regulatory programs for hydraulic fracturing. i am the oil and gas director in the state of oklahoma. i'm the director of the oil and gas division of the oklahoma corporation. we are the agency that regulates oil and gas drilling operations in the state of oklahoma. i'm also here talking today as a member of the board of stronger, currently serving as chairman of that board. and i'm a member of the board of the groundwater protection council as well. so i'm going to talk a little bit about a couple of the programs that those organizations have under way that are addressing hydraulic fracturing issues. i do want to emphasize how important understand that states do regulate hydraulic fracturing, just how they go about regulating hydraulic fracturing is documented in the stronger reports that i will describe in more detail shortly. but those, those programs that the states administer have bane roubane -- been aroun