Mr.

Chairman, I had

indicated earlier that the chipseal program had been rolled into the capital for the communities. Each community has the option of going with whatever type of dust suppression they'd like to go with. A number of communities have indicated that chipseal is not something they want to have in their community, not because it's not a good dust suppressant but because of the O&M costs on it.

We really worked hard with the federal government when we negotiated the gas tax funding. We were successful in having them give us the flexibility for our communities to apply those dollars also for community dust control. So there are a number of avenues already in place for communities to utilize funding.

MACA does not have a capital budget right now except for what was being carried over. It would be a challenge for us to put something new of that nature in place without pulling back from what the communities already have in their budgets.

Tsiigehtchic, as the Member mentioned, has a fairly good budget. Their budget is a little over $2 million a year, and that’s a significant increase. We would certainly work with other departments and the community if they wanted to talk about dust control. Look at the analysis that we’ve already done. We know what is the best type of suppressant that should be utilized in all our communities. We’ve done the analysis on the types of soils. We'd certainly be happy to sit down and talk to them about it.