designated the surface soils operable unit to e.p.a. hard core of engineers as their prime contractor to come in and do yard clean ups it's pretty simple you go out and dig up some dirt out of the yard you bring in new clean dirt take the top six inches where it's hot or it's above the cleanup standard if you have some below that in that spot you take the next expenses etc like a man and i spent eighty thousand dollars to redo my yard. about three feet. deep all around my forearms all of the damage. but the best estimate i've gotten from the e.p.a. is a little over one hundred thirty million dollars the average cost to remediate your by the e.p.a. was seventy thousand dollars per house and not believe it was ninety five i had some e.p.a. officials come to my office and they told me what they want to do i said come go with me so we all got my pick and i drove them up on a chair and i said you folks think you're going to be able to fix this and one e.p.a. official made a statement to me on top of that check all right over there i'll be able to

hard to get on the drawing board. with that being said, i am a strong supporter of bringing in the e.p.a., which this bill does. i believe we've to set our transportation priorities. unfortunately, washington and all of us here seem to become so dysfunctional that the politics, whether it is the party politics or the personal politics, is -- put before the good of the country. it's got to stop. i i heard one of our good senators from arizona saying we're down to 9%. if it wasn't for our staff or our family, i don't know if we'd be within the margin of error. with that being said, we've got to come together. we've had disagreements throughout the history of this great country and we've come together many times. this is one i think will challenge all of us to come together as americans. people of west virginia didn't send me here to washington to play the blame game. i've said many times i've never fixed a problem by blaming somebody else for it. i fixed a problem by identifying that we had a problem and then trying to bring all sides together to fix it. that's what we need more of here in washington. i don't thi