I'll go back to my question about making sure everybody knows who's making the decisions.
The department doesn't know who has the authority to order a cleanup and what extensiveness of cleanup would be done on something like the Great Lakes, yet we've determined that the time immediately following a nuclear incident is a critical time. Decisions will have to be made. Is there not then a burden of risk placed upon those who order the cleanup, that they may in fact not be compensated for it if they didn't, by some later judge's decision, hold the competent authority title?