Government and industry have participated in numerous successful statewide, interstate, and regional emergency drills. One hundred percent of state mainframe and midrange computers are ready, and 99.9 percent of the state's 62,000 desktop computers are ready. We've coordinated with federal and local entities to ensure that critical data interfaces are ready. All major gas and electric, oil, telecommunications, and water utilities report that they are ready. Major banks and other financial institutions are ready.
Transportation systems report that they are ready.
We've developed backup plans for Y2K-related scenarios. By December 31, the state will have its emergency operations center open around the clock and fully staffed. We'll coordinate with other state, federal, and local operations centers to monitor and respond to Y2K events. We'll be ready for technical outages, excessive celebrations, or other situations that could occur during the transition to the new century. We have no reason to believe that any of these situations may occur, but we're ready.