"You will be under pressure to lengthen the process and increase the torment by starting earlier.
The owner said that network officials had vetoed certain N.F.L. ideas, which has both complicated and lengthened the process.
Russell says that would be a whole new area of investigation, which would greatly lengthen the process.
The project, 14 years in the making, drew more than 400 volunteers, whose labor cut costs to $2.7 million but lengthened the process.
Challenges by a committee assigned to vet candidates for ties to the former government of Saddam Hussein further lengthened the process.
The new policy will require much more extensive environmental scrutiny once the moratorium is lifted and will lengthen the process of granting new drilling permits.
In response, Mark Anderson, a deputy commissioner with the authority, said: "There are a lot of procedures available to the licensee as the matter is adjudicated which can lengthen the process.
The note continued: "If too many folks take liberty with stepping out for meetings or events and we lose a quorum, the proceedings will be stopped, which will only lengthen the process and, frankly, will be embarrassing to the Senate.
"The road to medium-term economic sustainability goes through immediate decisive action in structural reforms and financial stability," said Mr Rehn.Any move to lengthen the process of bringing down the deficit will have to be weighed against two factors.
"I suspect that the objective is to lengthen the process so that it stretches into the approach to the general election and then probably to announce that they will be introducing provisions in the manifesto to repeal the whole legislation," he said.
