CHAIR WELLSLAGER: Interesting. What would be the possibilities of -- to build on some of the things Joyce had said, if the Corps of Engineers said I want to have a port here, infrastructure was in place and the facility looked like it was a go. And keeping in mind my knowledge of the Alaskan shoreline is poor at best what would be the possibilities of bringing up a navigation response team or possibly two teams to come in and do the survey since the cost factor to try to get a ship up here to do something like that and the time involved would be prohibitively expensive. And that's a question I guess that would come to either you or Dr. Sullivan. Could something like that actually happen? I mean, we're looking at another way of getting or possibly getting it out to a contractor. CAPT. LOWELL: I would say it's probably more likely that we would go the contract route in this area. I mean, we've had
CHAIR WELLSLAGER: Interesting. What would be the possibilities of -- to build on some of the things Joyce had said, if the Corps of Engineers said I want to have a port here, infrastructure was in place and the facility looked like it was a go. And keeping in mind my knowledge of the Alaskan shoreline is poor at best what would be the possibilities of bringing up a navigation response team or possibly two teams to come in and do the survey since the cost factor to try to get a ship up here to do something like that and the time involved would be prohibitively expensive. And that's a question I guess that would come to either you or Dr. Sullivan. Could something like that actually happen? I mean, we're looking at another way of getting or possibly getting it out to a contractor. CAPT. LOWELL: I would say it's probably more likely that we would go the contract route in this area. I mean, we've had
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