of america. official observers include the oklahoma sierra club and united states and arm of the protection agency region six. the review team concluded the oklahoma program is over all well managed, professional, and meets objectives. incidently, the u.s. epa and department of energy provided grant funding for them to support their activities. in oklahoma collaboration involving the regulation of oil and gas industry, other stakeholders, and my state agency staff repeatedly led to successful development of rules and policies to address environmental protection issues, particularly protection of water. the example -- two particular way -- lakes accept -- lakes that are exceptionally clean that provide very high quality water to a city of 100 miles away. the lakes are also on top of a deep rock deposit that holds the huge amounts of natural gas which in the best interest of all, and the nation, we want to allow the petroleum industry to find and produce. without the need of federal intervention, the city of oklahoma city, regulated oil and gas industry, and state work together for acceptable protec