I want to thank you, Ms. May, for all your advocacy and all your work over the years. I know you care greatly about the environment, but in particular about environmental assessments.
We certainly took the input of the expert panel. We received a lot of other input as well.
The goal of environmental assessments—now we're calling them impact assessments—is to make sure you're considering the projects that will have a significant impact on the range of factors.
There was a proposal to have them on any federal funding, but the impact could be that you could have very small works because there was a tie to federal funding that would necessarily trigger a review. We think that our focus has hit the right.... We're consulting on the project list, but we think we should focus on federal impact assessments on projects that have the most potential for adverse effects in areas of federal jurisdiction related to the environment.