 The NRC State Liaison Officer Program is a program where we maintain effective communications in coordination with local, state and Native American governments. We work to keep them informed on issues and topics of interest to them. We also work to establish good relationships where if they have any questions we work to answer those and in general keep them informed on activities and issues that might impact them. Each governor points a State Liaison Officer. That State Liaison Officer acts as the primary point of contact between that state and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. That individual can reside in, for example, the Department of Health, Mercy Management or another area. What's important with that individual is that they have the understanding of the state government. The regional State Liaison Officers are located in each of the NRC's four regional locations in Philadelphia, Atlanta, Dallas and Chicago. And our job is to interact with state liaison officers as well as other officials from state government, tribal nations and from local government agencies as well as other federal agencies that have a role in responsibility in protecting public health and safety, the environment and the work. Most of our communications are one-on-one conversations with representatives from the state, federal and local agencies. They can be conversations on the phone, in person or by email. Our activities involve setting up meetings for government representatives to meet with our staff. We also coordinate government participation in public meetings. One of the ones I want to highlight though is the observation of inspections. I established cooperation with offering inspections for state personnel and we have in Region 3 a Pre-I and In-Community, allow them to come in and view or observe inspections in the field. And when people experience that observation of our inspections, they understand our procedures, they understand what we're looking at, they are part of the communications and questions that we have as a regulator and it really allows them to take that experience away and kind of be our advocate later on. I routinely work with state, local, tribal and other federal agencies that are all involved in the emergency response process in doing emergency response planning and participate in routine exercises and drills for those agencies to be sure that we are ready to respond in the event of an emergency. Our job is to provide them with the NRC's independent evaluation and insight into plant conditions so that they can make good informed protective action decisions. Two of the agency's most important goals are openness and transparency and the state liaison officers directly contribute to those goals by ensuring that the federal, state and local government partners that we interact with stay informed about our activities involving nuclear power plants and fuel facilities in their jurisdictions. The program also allows them to have an opportunity to provide input and their thoughts and feedback on issues of interest to them so that we can factor their input into our regulatory decision making. It can be summed up in the ideal that it's a shared mission to protect the health and safety of the public and the environment.