I believe that our recommendations, such as the independence of the safety function within the Department of the Interior, are as important as the decisions that Congress made a number of years ago to make the FBI a quasi-independent agency within the Department of Justice.
Costa emphasizes the importance of independent safety oversight in the Department of the Interior.
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