 Well, my name is Rocky Saunders and I'm a special assistant to Paul Jax, Deputy Director of OES, Disaster Assistance Division. Members of the Disaster Assistance Division were dispatched to Tule Lake on April 30th to take a look at the situation up here as far as the drought conditions and also the difficulty with water coming out of the Klamath Basin. We had an economic disaster on our hands, there was a great deal of dust, topsoil moving about to the fact there was no water to keep the topsoil on the ground and we found a lot of panic in the community. Our community has been in decline for quite a while really with the agricultural situation and we've had drought for the last couple of years. It's been very bad this year and so we've seen the effects slowly over time. This year is a real extreme and with the drought being much more severe and than the Bureau of Reclamation not allowing the irrigation water to flow. And so then on May 4th the governor declared our area disaster zone. We talked to farm leaders, we talked to community leaders, school district superintendents, principals and made the assessment that something had to be done. For the next three weeks we planned the recovery process which took on two aspects. First of all which is the local assistance center as we see here. The local assistance center was staffed locally funded by NDAA state funds and we're in partnership with local service delivery folks as well as county and state programs. All kinds of stuff is happening inside the building. We have many many different kinds of agencies and organizations and services represented. We have people from the health department, the mental health department, behavioral health, employment development department, the state agriculture services, the USDA, social services. There's just a variety of things. This is a one stop shop so that we have information and services available on just about any kind of program people would need. Yesterday was our opening and we had 75 people sign in for assistance and I know we missed some people and we had whole families coming so what we'd have to do is someone sign in for the whole family. I was amazed. I really expected some people coming for assistance but I thought it would be a slower process so I think that goes kind of underscores that yeah this really is serious. And what we found yesterday is that while some people are still working a lot of people have their hours cut or they know they're going to be no longer working within the next few weeks and so it is. It's certainly affecting our community on a very broad scale. Farming is the only industry here in Tule Lake. Our goal first of all is to salvage the topsoil here in the Tule Lake Basin. It's valuable, rich topsoil probably the richest topsoil in all of California is here in Tule Lake and without water it's just going to blow away. Second goal is to salvage what we can from this agricultural season. There are crops that have been planted but without water they'll die and without the crops this community will die. So our goal is to get the water on the ground as fast as possible. With regards to the agriculture we put together a well drilling program again in partnership with the California Department of Water Resources and local experts here in the Tule Lake area. We put together again a working group that worked around the clock to prepare sites, to select sites, to clear them with environmental clearances as well as historical and archeological clearances. So we have now 12 selected sites for well drilling in the Tule Lake Basin which will create a serviceable amount of water for the area and that will take approximately 5 to 6 weeks to complete all 12 wells. The payment for the costs of the recovery is under the auspices of the Natural Disaster Assistance Act which is a state NDA law. The state is funding 100% of the recovery costs at this point. There is an option for a 25% local match with the counties but both Siskiu and Modak counties are financially strapped at this point. The governor has decided to waive that 25% match and so now it's going to be 100% state financed recovery program. The local assistance center here in Tule Lake will be open up to one year. We find that the economic disasters take a long time to recover and if it's an agricultural economic disaster it takes an entire year for the season to recover. A year at least because it's going to take that long. We know that it's really cyclical how things are going to happen and for instance there are some potato sheds that are going to be able to work until September because they have potatoes from last year. But in September that's it, there are no more potatoes. Then there's other businesses, associated businesses, the grocery store, the local restaurants, the auto parts place, the mechanics and they're already feeling it and it's going to get worse as time goes on.