I'll try to be brief.
I wanted to clarify for the committee that the term “sound science” doesn't appear in CEPA. So to a certain extent, we're setting up a straw dog. There's no obligation, and there's absolutely not an interpretation in the act or in either of the departments..... Well, there's no requirement in law or in policy for unequivocal certainty. I think any scientist—within the departments anyway—would agree that all of the risk management actions taken under CEPA were taken on the basis of uncertainty.
So we can debate about whether or not more should have been done, but I want to be clear that the departments are very transparent about the fact that they do not seek certainty, and they acknowledge that they cannot seek certainty. That's a recipe for inaction, and everybody agrees with that.