The department has worked to improve the program in response to the commissioner's result analysis.
One of the key things to recognize here is that the regulations do not require the elimination of all continuous sources of intentional routine venting. I wish they did, but they don't. We have a lot of oil wells that produce associated gas, and that gas is perhaps not near a gas collection network right now. These projects have allowed a tying into that infrastructure, which allows that gas, instead of being vented or flared, to supply energy needs or to be used for on-site fuel. I think that's an improvement over the regulations.
To change the regulations—which we would really like to see; we want to see them ramped up—does take time. I think this fund, intake three, will help reduce emissions in the interim period.