With regard to NOAA I have to disagree. For a bureaucrat NOAA's Mr. Jones made a very significant statement when he said (paraphrasing him) that the costs, etc. were NOAA's responsibility - a mea culpa if you will.

I do believe that his testimony further established a commitment for a much more timely performance by NOAA; one that they will be held to at least in the court of public opinion.

That said, I am still very concerned about the lack of a specific plan that reasonably calls for completion of all reviews before the agreement with WFC runs out or that there is an alternate plan if achieving that goal with the settlement's time frame cannot be achieved.