please welcome the epa administrator and pretty good basketball player michael regan. pplause] administrator regan: good morning and happy new year. i am excited to be here. mayer, thank you for that introduction and for your leadership. -- mayor, thank you for that introduction and for your leadership. we have a lot of work to do together and time is of the essence. we laid a very strong foundation in 2021, especially the degree of agency rebuilding we needed to do at epa. i am proud of what we have accomplished, from tackling climate change to working towards rebuilding trust with underserved communities, to strengthening our water infrastructure. but we have only begun to scratch the surface. we have a long way to go to truly building a better america, so we are going to keep the pedal to the metal in 2022. i firmly believe that our success in confronting the biggest environmental challenges of our time will be determined by our partnerships. as the state secretary of environmental quality in north carolina, i found how actions from the epa can help or hurt local eff

please welcome the epa administrator and pretty good basketball player michael regan. pplause] administrator regan: good morning and happy new year. i am excited to be here. mayer, thank you for that introduction and for your leadership. -- mayor, thank you for that introduction and for your leadership. we have a lot of work to do together and time is of the essence. we laid a very strong foundation in 2021, especially the degree of agency rebuilding we needed to do at epa. i am proud of what we have accomplished, from tackling climate change to working towards rebuilding trust with underserved communities, to strengthening our water infrastructure. but we have only begun to scratch the surface. we have a long way to go to truly building a better america, so we are going to keep the pedal to the metal in 2022. i firmly believe that our success in confronting the biggest environmental challenges of our time will be determined by our partnerships. as the state secretary of environmental quality in north carolina, i found how actions from the epa can help or hurt local eff

i am really honored to speak after our environmental leader of our administration michael regan.m secretary janet yellen. i will tell you there are few people i've ever worked in the white house who are so -- such high performers consistently as julie rodriguez are head off intergovernmental affairs. [applause] her team, her entire team is so amazing and luke works with me and her on the american rescue h plan delivers over, and over again for both of us. i think of one thing everybody in this room understands is that the american rescue plan had a dual mission, to number one combat the immediate crisis we inherited in early 2021 and jumpstart our tweconomy. but number two, to ensure that we as a nation and all of you as mayors have the financial power and flexibility to invest in a durable, equitable, recovery. to take on not just the immediate but the lingering impacts of covid. and to provide all of us and you with an insurance policy at the economic disruptions in the prominent known unknown spread of covid variance. this design was wise in terms of its first goal in jumpstar

you remember the investments we made in ports and in bridges and the ones we sent out, the ones michael regan sent out on clean water and clean air. the governors have this money. some of this mop is fungible. as soon as they decide where the money is going to go and do it with appropriate attention to equity, climate, using american products, and other things of that nature, those projects shouldn't take long. you don't build a bring in a day. reporter: i'm curious about the money for amtrak. what is the process looking like in terms of spending those funds, the timeline when do you think -- [indiscernible] -- and is it going to be, in terms of figuring out which project, i know they have planning that amtrak does and a lot of it is focused on that northeast corridor, the travel up the northeast coast, is that going to be a process that amtrak itself figures out what they're going to spend or if there's going to be input from the administration, the white house? how does that work? >> we're going to all figure it out together. you can count on that. secondly, to make you aware of the scope o

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the investment we just made in bridges and the ones that we sent out, the ones that michael regan certainty out on clean water and air. the governors now have this money. some of this money is fungible from the american recovery plan as well. so as soon as the governors and legislatures decide where this money is going to go and they do it with appropriate attention to equity, climate, using american products and other things of that nature, those projects shouldn't take long. however, it takes a long time to build a bridge. you don't build a bridge in a day. sometimes people in this town know that you can tear down things a lot quicker than you can build them. and they work hard to do that. in this instance we're going to take time and do it right but we're going to do it as quickly as we possibly can. reporter: i'm curious about the money for amtrak. what is the process looking like in terms of spending those funds, the timeline when do you think -- [indiscernible] -- and is it going to be, in terms of figuring out which project, i know they have planning that amtrak does and a lot of it