The committee also heard from the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) and it was, in terms of its presentation, highlighting the increasing pressures that the authority is under as its functions increase—functions like the work under the COVID-19 Recovery (Fast-track Consenting) Act—and the work that it is doing on chemical mapping across Aotearoa being affected by COVID, because its chief scientist redirected his work to COVID. One of EPA's highlights is the Mātauranga Framework, that it has developed.