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handle is hein.cbhear/fdsysaqcj0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, ENVIRON- MENT, AND RELATED AGENCIES APPRO- PRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2017 WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 2016 U.S. SENATE, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, Washington, DC. The subcommittee met at 11:02 a.m., in room SD-124, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Lisa Murkowski (chairman) presiding. Present: Senators Murkowski, Udall, Tester, Cassidy, Blunt, Leahy, Daines, and Hoeven. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY STATEMENT OF HON. GINA McCARTHY, ADMINISTRATOR ACCOMPANIED BY DAVID BLOOM, DEPUTY CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFI- CER OPENING STATEMENT OF SENATOR LISA MURKOWSKI Senator MURKOWSKI. Good morning. I would like to welcome ev- eryone to today's hearing in the Interior Appropriations Sub- committee. Sorry that we are starting a little bit later than sched- uled, but we had an energy bill that we wanted to move across the floor. Thanks to my colleagues for on that bill support. We are here to examine the fiscal year 2017 budget request for the Environmental Protection Agency. Administrator McCarthy, thank you for being here. Thank you for your work. I hope that we have a constructive dialogue today. Mr. Bloom, welcome back to the subcommittee as well. Ms. McCarthy, we had a chance to visit briefly on the phone about some of the issues that are front and center in Alaskans' minds, and as you know, there is angst, there is anxiety, there is a view by many within my State that EPA is overstepping its ap- propriate role. I hear from these folks all the time. There is a concern that, rather than focusing on the core mission of attending to and cleaning up the environment, the Agency is pumping out rule after rule based on questionable legal authority. I hear about the Agency's Waters of the United States proposal re- peatedly, the so-called Clean Power Plan, and several other rules that come up repeatedly in conversation. Several of these are rules have such questionable legal grounds that they've been stayed in the courts. Numerous other rules are being challenged by States and other impacted entities who are concerned that EPA continues

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