mr. scott mcburney, who lives down in yellowstone. the honorable bill kennedy, commissioner of yellowstone county, and gary pruessing, president of the exxonmobil pipeline company. okay. i'll begin with you, mr. kennedy. can i make sure serving your county with distinction and for a number of years, always reelected. bill? >> thank you, senator baucus, and thank you for inviting me to the committee for insight of the oil spill in the yellowstone river in laurel, montana. i have some statements, and after listening to the statements, i have comments on that also want the pipeline crosses yellowstone river located in my county. we are located about 140 miles from yellowstone park, and we had a lot of inquiries was there a spill in yellowstone park. it was a spill in yellowstone river and 140 miles east. we're 300 miles from the con fliewns of the yellowstone river and missouri river. as you can see, we're in the mid area, but the yellowstone flows into the missouri on to the mississippi, and senator vitte, that ends up down in louisiana.

mr. scott mcburney who lived on yellowstone. nd gary pruessing, president of exxon mobil pipeline company. ok. i will begin with you, mr. kennedy. the county commissioner serves the county with utmost and for a goodng goin number of years. always reelected. >> thank you, senator baucus, and thank you for inviting me to the committee for insight on the exxon oil spill in the yellowstone river located in yellowstone county. i have got some prepared statements, and i would like to, after listening to the statement earlier, i would like to make a couple of comments on that also. i am the yellowstone county commissioner. the pipeline crosses yellowstone river located in my county. we are located about 140 miles from yellowstone park. we had a lot of inquiries about was there a spill in williston park. there was a spill in the yellowstone river. we are about 300 miles to the confluence of the list and river and the missouri river. as you can see, we are in the mid area, but the list to river flows into the missouri river and then on to

mr. scott mcburney. lives on the yellowstone. the honorible county commiggetser of yellowstone county and gary producey, president of exxonmobil pipeline company. >> ok. service commissioner. with the utmost distinction. for a good number of years. always re-elected. bill? >> thank you senator baucus. and thank you for inviting me to the committee for insight on the exxon oil spill in the yellowstone river spill. i've not some prepared statements, and i'd like to after listening to the statements earlier, i i'd like to make a couple comments also. >> i am bill kennedy. the pipeline crosses yell towstone river located in my county. we're located 140 miles south of yellowstone park and we had a lot of inquiries of was there a spill in yellowstone park? there was a spill east where about 300 miles and the yellowstone river and another area. we're in the area. senator that ends up in louisiana. we've received a president shh emergency declaration on our county and statewide. the amount of snow pack is way above normal, and the yellow