Steve Owens Quotations

We use the funding estimates as a place holder because we do not know what the actual cost will be until we begin building. It's not until you actually bid the project that you'll have an idea of what it's going to be and even then you many have to adjust it again.

Phase four, if we can get it open by the end of the year, is going to be great.

There are table top exercises that we have for our own events like the Herndon Festival. We practice what might go wrong there and then we have a critique of it to see what we need to work on.

I think the most common problem with auto shops is material going down the drain or being dumped on properties. The whole point of this is to make sure we don't have problems in the future.

Recycling is one of our most effective tools to protect our environment. We are glad to support efforts to increase recycling in the Nogales community.

Management immediately investigated and terminated three employees right there and then. The company does have a zero tolerance policy for conduct of that nature.

That will save the city hundred of thousands of dollars over the life of the loan, plus the closing costs.

We really rolled up our sleeves on this. . . . Were the only state thats given a permit to a refinery in the last 30 years or so.

We were able to meet a 20- to 30-year project plan at once. It also enabled us to consolidate our operations, and being able to consolidate things under one roof is huge.

We don't believe that it will be necessary to have any strict controls or mandates.

The Phoenix metro area has had 127 consecutive days without rain. We are again experiencing the same type of weather pattern that has persisted over the last few months. These conditions continue to exacerbate our underlying air quality problems.

We've never really seen anything like what we've gone through this season.

This was a dangerous, uncontrolled reaction because the magnesium particles were spilling out of the dumpster and releasing gas. If our inspectors hadn't intervened, this dangerous conduct could well have led to a serious fire or explosion.

There have been many tons of hazardous air pollutants that have been released into the air and breathed into the lungs of Arizona citizens over the last 12 years. They should have been regulated and were not.

Everything helps. It took us a long time to get into this fix. It will take a long time to get out of it.

At this point, we don't have any reason to believe there has been any impact on the groundwater.

Flagstaff has been engaged for some time in long-term water sustainability planning efforts. Flagstaff has been working to identify a reliable water supply for the future, and this loan will enable the city to acquire the properties it has identified to meet its need.

It's troubling. It means the public and environmental protection agencies like us will have less information about toxic substances being released into our environment.

It may sound strange to people that we're finishing a new facility next to one that could be empty soon, but Red Rock was designed around commitments from other states.

It may be that we simply go from one high-pollution season to another.

It was a pretty realistic, simulation. It was pretty scary, but we did well.

The dilemma is that there was no direct contract with ICE, because that was handled through the one Bureau contract. It's possible that ICE may now want to work directly with us, but because we don't have any assurance of that, we have given every employee a notice of termination.