04/24/2013
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"I appreciate the expeditious manner in which your Department handled those issues."
"The few times when OSM has asked for the States for comments on draft documents, the timeframes they are given to answer are unrealistic, some less than 5 days to respond to OSM."
"The States, as I said, are primarily responsible for most of the regulatory work, but yet OSM is asking for a $5.5 million increase for itself and cutting the States' grants by more than $3 million."
"I have got 9,000 miners in my district laid off in the last few years."