Thank you, Mr. Chairman. We did provide a quantified work plan with estimates of what the cost would be in carrying it out. However, those were estimates because until you engage in discussions with the specialists and scope out the project and the work required, it is difficult to be specific with the cost of each aspect of the project. We were working within a tentative budget on the project.

With respect to the specific question on the timing of the special warrant, we had to make sure that our spending for that date was something that we could accommodate should the special warrant not be approved. The timing of the special warrant is very critical to that because the special warrant in this case was signed by the Commissioner on September 26th. The timing of that was important because that was approaching the period of time when we could not have dealt with the expenditures to date without the authority of the special warrant.