the iru. i want to ask a question about how that differs from the inspector general.d i know you're requesting 5.8 million and 20 full-time equivalents for the iru, so i'm trying to understand what the iru will do that is different as you know and as the chairman knows, there has been a history of allegations of corruption and misconduct within the agency as well as mismanagement of certain issues. lot of to handle certain kinds of allegations and investigations yourself. the inspector general and interior, the inspector general in any department doesn't have adequate resources to do all of that. when i was at the justice department and i was the inspector general, all of the different components of the justice department -- bureau of prisons, immigration service, dea, fbi -- all had their own internal affair units. so the inspector general would get allegations, and then those that it didn't have the resources or for some other reason didn't want to handle would be flipped back to internal affairs. that's exactly the principle that we're talking about here. >> okay.

. >> the full time equivalent so in trying to understand what the iru will do that is different from what the inspector general does. >> it's a very good question. as you know and as the chairman knows, they're has been a history of allegations of corruption and misconduct within certain issues. in my experience, and experience in a lot of organizations, in order to have a healthy organization you need to have the ability to handle certain investigations yourself. the inspector general and interior of the inspector general of any department doesn't have adequate resources to do all of that. the justice department present at that time immigration service fbi all had their own internal affairs units, and so the inspector general would get allegations and didn't have the resources or for some other didn't want to handle would be flat back to the internal affairs. that is exactly the principle we are talking about here is to create an internal affairs type of capability which will also have the ability to do aggressive and force reductions in the gas companies that are violating our rule

>> the iru would have no authority to stop production, no. >> one more question mr. chairman?u are so kind. on to state partnerships for audit programs. that program relies on states to to -- on an estimated 3.3 billion in royalty payments. i know the state of wyoming has been doing that for years with federal mineral or royalties and the stay. i know you have agreements with 10 states and h. tribe's. generally speaking, when i was in state government in wyoming i felt like the states were doing a really good job, specially the state of wyoming on some of these compliance audits. and my question about this is, since we have got such tight budgets and we are not going to be able to fund everything here at the federal level that is being requested, do you think it would make sense to rely on states with which you have, currently have agreements, to collect revenue as well? obviously states like wyoming are collecting a tremendous amount of state royalty ad valorem royalty severance tax royalty based on a lot of the same production from the same companies on the same formulas, an