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new rates take effect if ferc approves them or if ferc fails to issue an order approving our denying the filed rate within 60 days. the failure to approve or deny ray result from agency delay or in -- may result from agency delay or in a result from a dead lock commission, for example, a 2-2 vote. in such cases, the rates become effective by operation of law, even when these rates were not approved by a majority of commissioners. and the federal power act provides administrative redress for members of the public to protect commission rate decisions. however, if these rates become effective by operation of law, for example, a dead lock 2-2, the administrative processes are not available to the public because ferc did not actually issue an order for the public to protest. so the public literally gets shut out. and i don't want to speak for the gentleman from massachusetts, but i think some of his constituents recently experienced this firsthand and as a result of that and the hard work of mr. kennedy, his staff and the committee staff on both sides of the aisle, this legislation was ad
new rates take effect if ferc approves them or if ferc fails to issue an order approving our denying the filed rate within 60 days. the failure to approve or deny ray result from agency delay or in -- may result from agency delay or in a result from a dead lock commission, for example, a 2-2 vote. in such cases, the rates become effective by operation of law, even when these rates were not approved by a majority of commissioners. and the federal power act provides administrative redress for...
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murkowski, the base includes my provision on streamlining the natural gas permitting which we designate ferc as the lead agency to make it hopefully the process move forward more quickly a morsel to mostly. permit of the process is moving as fast as a good. i hear there are delays and the forest service is part of the problem. some of the problems are getting permission to survey to get on the ground, dated to find a suitable route, getting to forest service staff to review the data and then provide feedback in a reasonable amount of time. and then to determine if an admin is needed. these are some of the major areas. -- amendment is needed. thus the four service has adequate resources? if not what does the forest service nude? >> we have adequate resources. if we had a larger staff, similar to what we had 10 years ago, we would be able to be more responsive. we would be able to work a little bit faster. we it comes to a pipeline, the issues come from the public. the public's concern about the place become that man is a pipeline. they want to be assured that it's going to be constructed in a
murkowski, the base includes my provision on streamlining the natural gas permitting which we designate ferc as the lead agency to make it hopefully the process move forward more quickly a morsel to mostly. permit of the process is moving as fast as a good. i hear there are delays and the forest service is part of the problem. some of the problems are getting permission to survey to get on the ground, dated to find a suitable route, getting to forest service staff to review the data and then...
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i find the imagery of the president yukking it up with ferc terrace at a baseball game yesterday when and i believe, well, i'm not going to go on on that. i just think there are better things that i think the public should be seeing. one of the troubling aspects of the transfer of six detainees to uruguay was the slow wonder to the letter uruguayan government that none of the detainees had ever been assaulted with terrorism. we know this isn't true, and i know it was your predecessor who wrote the letter. but you can, can you walk us through how the administration could make such a misleading statement? how can you expect a host government didn't take seriously to monitoring and mitigation of the detainee? in your case rates become a state at the time they would not monitor. and we still released them. does this speak to the administration overall willingness to accept greater risk in pursuit of the president political goal to empty the prison? mr. wolosky. >> sure. yes, sir, thank you. first, although we cannot speak in an open session about the specifics of the security assurances t
i find the imagery of the president yukking it up with ferc terrace at a baseball game yesterday when and i believe, well, i'm not going to go on on that. i just think there are better things that i think the public should be seeing. one of the troubling aspects of the transfer of six detainees to uruguay was the slow wonder to the letter uruguayan government that none of the detainees had ever been assaulted with terrorism. we know this isn't true, and i know it was your predecessor who wrote...
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there's another seven hydro projects we're working with ferc to try to get through, plus another i think dozen that we are still looking to start the analysis on. so we are moving forward. so we are not waiting for the forest to plant a minute. will continue to work with folks to move forward to be able to implement those hydro projects. >> well, i would ask you to look to making sure that these standards come these guidelines really do do what we are hoping, which is to help facilitate the renewable energy development projects that we are talking about. let me turn to the senator cantwell. >> thank you, madam chair. chief tidwell, i want to ask about the ascot mind. the ascot resources canadian mining company is proposing to conduct an exploratory drilling on the adjacent of mount saint helen's which is a national volcanic monument. so the exploratory guilt mining development could impact about 900 acres, 165 of those acres of the proposed 900-acre develop it for purchase by the land and water conservation fund. you can see where i'm going here. why would the forest service allow for th
there's another seven hydro projects we're working with ferc to try to get through, plus another i think dozen that we are still looking to start the analysis on. so we are moving forward. so we are not waiting for the forest to plant a minute. will continue to work with folks to move forward to be able to implement those hydro projects. >> well, i would ask you to look to making sure that these standards come these guidelines really do do what we are hoping, which is to help facilitate...
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there is another seven hydro projects we're working with ferc to try to get through. there are another dozen we're looking to start analysis on. so we are, we're moving forward. so we're not waiting for the forest plan amendment. we'll continue to be able to work with folks move forward to implement those hydro projects. >> i would ask you to look making sure that these standards, these guidelines, really do do what we're hoping which is help facilitate the renewable energy development projects that we're talking about. let me turn to senator cantwell. >> thank you, madam chair. chief tidwell, i want to ask you abouts ascot mine. canadian mining company is proposing discuss the exploratory drilling near adjacent to mount st. helens which is national volcanic monument that the exploratory mining development could impact 900-acres. 165 of those acrers of the proposed 900-acre development were purchased by the land and water conservation fund. so you can see where i'm going here. why would the forest service allow for this proposal to move forward if you had already prev
there is another seven hydro projects we're working with ferc to try to get through. there are another dozen we're looking to start analysis on. so we are, we're moving forward. so we're not waiting for the forest plan amendment. we'll continue to be able to work with folks move forward to implement those hydro projects. >> i would ask you to look making sure that these standards, these guidelines, really do do what we're hoping which is help facilitate the renewable energy development...
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fat ho bunch of lawyers but couldn't deal with meltdown at ferc because it moved to a different trading moderate obviously the agencies have to get the technical expertise they need, but it would be important of the rules and the personnel to do it. >> i agree but i think that's a real challenge. >> i understand. we have to meet the challenges of the future. mr. okpaku? >> thank you for the question. we at lyft are not only are we fully committed to ensuring that we prevent any instances of cyber hacking or any violations over user privacy but yes, we are in support of well-thought-out principles that would codify our previous existing attempts to ensure that. i think it's important of the agenda this has been discussed before that there be a consistency of what these principles look like. we are dealing with a technology that would be deployed across the country, and in order to do so we need to make sure whatever principles are put in place to ensure the privacy and safety of our users that is consistent across the country. >> i think that chairman is going to catch us. doing the mand
fat ho bunch of lawyers but couldn't deal with meltdown at ferc because it moved to a different trading moderate obviously the agencies have to get the technical expertise they need, but it would be important of the rules and the personnel to do it. >> i agree but i think that's a real challenge. >> i understand. we have to meet the challenges of the future. mr. okpaku? >> thank you for the question. we at lyft are not only are we fully committed to ensuring that we prevent...