better in fact clean energy clean air and water and a healthy environment has powerful economic potential you will see that in this budget economic recovery and environmental protections go hand in hand here the president's  think that is pretty clear that the e p a has that responsibility and i know you're aware of it i'm particularly concerned but indifferent disruptors because we did the study of the potomac river you know it couldn't be very good i would like to be a part of facilitating that for you if i could the chairman's been on one and i think he can say that it's unlikely also appreciate that u definition of kill material and what i was wondering whether whether that would be treated as well or not a little bit a little bit different take on that particular issue  the budget request that you put in for criminal enforcement is the largest ever according to your budget it looks like you'll be able to finally employ two to that particular chemical how broadly decades ago and how it's still lying out there in a lot of places and the way in which there are no national health safety standards to drill for gasoline including the marcellus shale area that stretches across pennsylvania and new york but this hydraulic fracturing which is carried out vast amounts of water sand and chemicals some chemicals including things like benzene down into the into the ground and then drills along  and unfortunately in that legislation that was passed back in two thousand and five that energy policy act exempted hydraulic fracturing from the drinking water act which was designed to  protect people's water supply from contamination of these kinds of toxic chemicals so we have now in many places across the country more than one thousand cases of contamination that have been documented by courts by the state and local governments in places like new mexico alabama texas pennsylvania colorado and elsewhere so in one case there was a house that exploded after hydraulic fracturing created underground passageways and the methane into the residential water supply and just blew the place up so obviously there's a lot of damage and danger that is potentially here in this is something that really needs to  s a very significant change in the kind of budget we are seeing this year there are some very large increases really didn't see an agency get more than one third increase in its proposed budget at the same time there's quite significant reductions or removals that also show up let me just ask you how many how many administrative people require in your in your agency require senate confirmation fourteen including yourself how many of them have been confirmed now other than yourself how many have how many have remaining including yourself un two others have been confirmed in total so how many of the other ten names have already been set up for confirmation housing and urban development and transportation committee subcommittee of the appropriations committee we do ninety eight percent of the housing that is done on reservations two percent of those done by the cia which is also part of the interior subcommittee and of course your water issues are all here in this committee in these areas where grants are available and capacity is critical is also critical to being in line for the next time with you don't have a good history you're going to be less likely to get the money the next time so the capacity in my subcommittee in the capacity in this subcommittee are really critical but it's also important in other places i don't need to go into the other places so i along with mr cole and i'm very interested in how one builds that capacity and maintains it sustains it and makes it  t is a very large increase it's two and a half times what has been appropriated year by year comes in in the in the recovery act and the amounts for the clean water fund the revolving funds which are basically loan funds those are are huge increases in any case so there are very large increases there but i do want to the inclusion of the rural water program for communities of under three thousand population and the program under the national rural water association the sum total of those programs is less than fifteen million dollars but it represents what you find we have thousands of communities in this country which are losing population when they're losing population they're almost certain to of was their capacity to maintain service programs and to pay water share and in moving over to the to the grant program and the revolving fund programs there is a twenty percent match at the state level most of the states are undergoing very severe economic problems and would have serious difficulty this year huge numbers in certain parts of the country but there are communities in every state in upstate new york their community population in my original home state of pennsylvania there are substantial number of communities losing population and  budget the highest and thirty nine year history but it's not just a big budget i think it's also and in most ways a very discriminating budget and i compliment you on the work that's gone into it i want to ask you questions about two major aspects water infrastructure and research virtually everybody this morning has mentioned the revolving funds and the major increase that you're highlighting the hundred fifty seven percent increase i believe it is in the two thousand and ten budget request for the clean water and drinking water state revolving fund when you add that to the six billion provided in the recovery bill we're talking about they're on the way back and this is very promising i do have one question about the way this is going to be administered as i understand it you had a requirement in the in the recovery bill in the recovery bill that states are required to provide at least twenty percent of their grants for green projects including green infrastructure energy or water efficiency and environmentally innovative green water infrastructure on biofuels integrated risk information systems and on the computational toxicology research program and not incremental increases and all those  a broader overview of research priorities but as you know the budget for ecosystems research has declined something like thirty six percent over the over the last eight years from one hundred eleven million in fiscal ninety nine to and ten which of course is movement in the in the in the right direction but rather modest when compared to some of these other research investments again i'm not suggesting you do everything at once and but i but i am looking here for but it seems like we're creating enough exemptions whether they're specific or industry specific that more and more people are buying onto i guess that's how you do that by not looking at what you're trying to do but by looking at your going to create one of the concerns i have first of all what you can do federal research dollars toward the development and deployment of low carbon carbon technologies this is what really concerns me not fully believe we need to do what we can in terms of climate change and trying to address climate change and  carbon emissions and so forth but it seems like every budget that comes up here has something to do with climate change and i don't know how well it's coordinated going to confirm that for me how are you working with other agencies national park service has ten million dollars for climate change almost every agency you know several years ago it was you had to have something related to homeland security and then you're going to get funded now it is you have to have something related to climate change and it's going  to probably have a requirement that in every paragraph what everybody does when somebody does green has to be mentioned a certain number of times that's how you get funding what are we doing to coordinate the hundreds of millions of dollars well you can get it to me and then later use a program designed to help and so forth for it to assess the safely clean up and reuse of brown field the reason i asked that question is that so i would like to have some discussion maybe with the person who is in charge of this area if you would have identify him for have him identify himself to me as being involved in that brownfield fund to understand how why what the overlapping is finally because we've had that argument before and the last thing i'd like to ask when you're on your research and development your development fund is up by competitive research grant program somewhere that looks at that gives out some money to do remediation of of toxic sites whether it comes from the  instance probably couldn't go but in small spills and so could be could be used in some cases you know the cost of the cost is huge to do the hudson river as my