i've spoke ton the coo, are head contractor, riley abecko probably now four times in my office on making sure that he, too, has an a-team as the contractor and from my discussions with the people on the ground, they say that abecko has always been doing their job in trying to get the right people there. >> thank you for that level of detail, because i think that is what it takes. i've often said make the secretary for life so we don't change horses in the stream. can i get your viewpoints on whether we can dispose of military waste first? what we don't want is for it to become a de facto site for 90% of the storage. a blue ribbon commission was in here a few weeks ago, senator domenici, my colleague, talking about this, i've tried to follow up whether the waste isolation plant in new mexico might be an ideal place for hanford waste. so do you agree with him on keep separate the civilian and the nuclear waste issues. i think they're -- that we -- it would be prudent to treat it differently, and we are considering -- i'm not sure where in the status, but the -- first it's for low-level rad