When we do a plan of work and seek budget and authorities to implement that plan of work, we don't generally put a lot of padding in. We have experience since 1992, my colleague has reminded me, in developing and implementing energy efficiency regulations. If we thought it took four years to do a body of work, and it's now being made more substantive by this amendment in some ways, then I don't like to say we can do it in three years. I'd say we can do it in three years with our best efforts because I can't guarantee we'll have a whole year somehow of slack time in our four-year provision. So I just can't go further than saying “best efforts in three years”.
On March 28th, 2007. See this statement in context.