santa suzanna in california, hanford, washington, argonne national laboratory, illinois, and the los alamos national laboratory in new mexico. if i might focus on the one in moabb, utah, this is a cleanup of a uranium site where there was a uranium plant that during the boom times when we were mining uranium as rapidly as we could, processed that uranium and left behind tailings that have been judged as being very damaging. these tailings were very close to the arizona -- to the colorado river and, indeed, the senator's own state of arizona is downstream from this tailing site. by appropriating this money in this bill in a manner that would be outlawed by the senator's amendment, we are accelerating the cleanup process. and in this time of economic difficulty, more jobs, more activity and, quite frankly, lower prices, as contractors are anxious to gain work and will bid in lower than they would otherwise, it is a logical thing to do. it would be dropped from the bill if we proceeded with the senator's amendment. for these reasons, i think the senator's amendment would be a mistake, and i wo