mr. carney, you've been very patient. you're one of the first ones here, unfortunately, one of the last to have at it with our panel. >> the travails of being a sophomore but thank you for the recognition. i'd like to continue, mr. ashley, along this vein with fire grants. there's 6,000 or so applications. what are you doing to make sure that there's going to be sort of regional equity when you're distributing these funds? >> as you're aware, there's no authorization language. this is a brand-new program start. what we set out for in the guidance was a goal to -- but not a strict adherence to the existing afg allocations, which is pretty straightforward in looking at rural, volunteer, urban and such as a goal. until we go through the complete review of the applications, looking at economic need and looking at, you know -- does a community need a new fire station, right, we won't know how that regional distribution will look. >> i see. well, there's an aspect of this -- of the money for the fire grants that is somewhat tro