waltzing the port of san francisco this item is to accept and extend a grant from the federal railroad association. so in summary in 2011, the port of san francisco was awarded a $2.7 million grant from the federal railroad association from or to complete the tack t strange it came upon a match from the port we've budgeted 3 hundred and thirty millions in our capital budget in 2013-2014 and just for by way of a little bit of background it's the coke e connecting track that serves caltrain as well as any cargo freight that comes between the port and the rest of the peninsula. and the improvements to the track are really a requirement for the port to be able to expand on the cargo services. and really as a snapshot of the really the benefit of cargo to the port we budgeted approximately $5 million a year of revenue and we're trying to preserve this important piece of our maritime element of our revenue in our budget. here's a snapshot of the street you see on the bottom reporter the long track is particularly and cuts over to third street bridge area and here's on image of our cargo facilities off t

hard with the group that regulates rail safety hazards, department of transportation, federal railroad associatione on designing the next generation tank car. we believe we have a tank car that quite frankly will approach being able to handle this crude in one form. but there's also another way and that is to remove the gases out of it. just like canadian crude, it will have a whole different type of compound. make sure the crude is properly identified in terms of packing groups. and we have the right tank car against that. >> those are difficult jobs to get the new tank cars. it doesn't happen overnight. it takes a lot of time to get the orders in, get them on the railroads. the whole idea, i didn't know about removing the gas. how is that that even worth the process? >> it say mini refinery process. whether or not that will actually occur or not. just when we are looking at canadian crude. through the year we developed the right tank cars, just like we have for crude. it was agreed to in 2011. the d.o.t. just this week sent to the white house omb a tank car standard. we'll see what comes out of

alert first responders of flammable liquids and six months ago the association of american railroads urged press for i am kprufed federal tank car regulations by requiring all tank cars be retro fitted or phased out. the increase led one senator to ask this pointed question. >> there's another way of transporting oil, isn't there? >> there are many ways, yes, sir. >> what's the most efficient? pipelines? >> you know, there are lots of ways -- >> have there been anybody killed in a pipeline accidents recently? >> there have been. >> recently? >> it was a not so subtle reference to the keystone xl pipeline. >> the keystone xl pipeline would move 100,000 barrels a day of light sweet bakan crude and 800,000 barrels a day when you include the canadian oil that comes in. that's the equivalent of 1,400 rail cars a day. most of it is going to the east and west coast. bakan producers have preferred to use rails and pipelines. they have turn down over half a million barrels a day of new pipeline proposals already. >> dot's proposal also comes after tom stieer promised to support any democratic who opposed it. >>> the agony of nig