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163 <br />1 environmental compliance manager. <br />2 Wish I could come and say exactly <br />3 what the cost would be. Some of what we are facing <br />4 is a loss of public confidence; public perception, <br />5 Is water safe. For the first time in 20 years we <br />6 found uranium in our finished drinking water. <br />7 We've heard that kind of -- it was <br />8 agreed that the alluvial waste piles were causing <br />9 some kind of impact. Well, they have been there for <br />10 the last 10, 15 years. We also heard that the mine <br />11 shaft is at its highest level ever, and for the <br />12 first time I'm getting uranium in my drinking water. <br />13 If that's a coincidence, that's not a <br />14 coincidence I feel comfortable with it, but to me <br />15 there's a pretty close correlation there, and <br />16 considering the impact to the drinking water supply, <br />17 1 hope there's something that could be done. <br />18 I agree with Tom that to achieve the <br />19 desired protection we need to see the water in <br />20 Ralston Creek below the schwartzwalder site to be <br />21 the same as the water above it. Whatever that <br />22 takes, there are smarter people in this room to <br />23 figure it out, but we're looking to you to find the <br />24 proper regulatory mechanism to achieve that. <br />25 We also use our sludge in a