mr. suttles, you may remember it. i think the secretary of the interior was there. i remember distinctly coming back from the meeting with mr. nungesser and the president on may 2, and meeting with the incident command, unified command at the incident command post in houma, and directing that we triple our efforts to obtain boom. i mentioned lift boats, directed the creation of forward operating bases fusing lift boats. i directed bp to obtain at least 30 of them and to position them at various strategic locations so that they could be utilized in the boom and shoreline protection strategies. i directed my experts on coming to lay 58,000 feet of boom along the breton sound side of the biloxi marsh, and that indie, those were set, that booming when i left was under way. that was all federal national strikeforce boom. i do agree with the president, once again, that one of my frustrations was a lack of large ocean boomed -- boom, and the difficulty of protecting those big passes, the passes into the days which are the access point into a lot of the interior or marsh. ve

mr. suttles. once the moratorium is lifted, one assumes that there will be a resumption of drilling. and yet that is contingent on satisfaction of notice to lessees 5 and 6. do your wells currently conform to the requirements in those two ntls? >> i'm not deeply familiar with the details of 5 and 6. as i sit here. but i do know that we're going through the ntls as they come out. and are looking at our capability to meet those and, of course, we'll have to meet those to go back to work. and any additional ntls the boem issue as a precondition to restarting. i think from those two already, what is clear is that certain equipment, certain wells, certain rigs are going to be -- find it easier to meet those requirements quickly than others. and i would expect the net effect of that to be, if you will, a phased restart. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your extremely informative based on close hands-on with this tragedy. and we would like to make a request that we might recontact you with some written questions as they might emerge in the future. >> that would be my pleas