mr. jaczko, there had been some complaints about your leadership of the commission, as you are aware. i do believe it is important that your plug the proper role of the chairman, which i am sure, has some administrative responsibilities. we have a commission, and they are established to decide important issues. with regard to these emergency powers, did you file an official document assuming emergency powers of any kind? how did you announce that you were assuming emergency power? >> it is not something in which we have procedures or is formally done. three days into the the incident, i was asked by my colleagues to require. i spoke with the general counsel and spoke with members of the staff, should i make a formal declaration of usage of power? i got one or two people that said no, that would distract us. frankly, i got distracted by dealing with the emergency response and did not turn back to it until several weeks later. >> did you take a formal opinion from counsel as to whether an event on the other side of the world would give the american nuclear regulatory commission, the com

mr. jaczko? why would you hesitate to do a complete and timely report of the actions taken during the emergency? >> i have conferred with the general council and i believe that i have more than satisfied the requirements of that particular provision. sufficient -- tremendous information is provided to the commission about actions that were taken during the response. >> well, i'm not arguing about that. you've given a lot of information. i believe the statute under which you served requires that the chairman or the emergency official render a complete and timely report. not a series of situation reports in a box somewhere. would you agree that's what it seems to say, plainly? >> as i read the statute, it's clear they envision one piece of information. certainly when that statute -- >> why wouldn't you do that? >> because i think we provided much of that information already to the commission. i've heard nothing from my colleagues on the commission that they have any interest in that report. >> i ha

mr. jaczko, there have been complaints of your leadership at the commission, as you're aware, i've seen it in the media, and i do believe it's important that you reflect the proper role of the chairman which, as i'm sure some administrative responsibilities, but we have a commission and the commission is established to decide and as a commission important issues. with regard to this emergency powers, did you file an official document assuming emergency powers of any kind? >> no, nor. >> how did you announce you were assuming emergency power? >> it is not something in this we have procedures in which that is formally done. about three or four days into the incident i was made aware my colleagues on the commission had asked and inquired about that. i spoke with the general council and asked members of the staff, should i make a formal declaration of use of emergency powers? and in all honesty, i got one or two people who said no, that would just distract you from the work that we're doing and quite frankly, i got distracted by dealing with the emergency response and didn't turn back to it un