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On the recordJuly 19, 2012
Even if you took the $18 million number--I was running some numbers here while I was sitting--it appears to me that what has actually been treated and addressed on Forest Service land is less than 2 percent of the lands that you have jurisdiction over have actually gone in and been dealt with and then treated for Fiscal Year 2011.
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Kristi Noem
Republican · South Dakota

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Noem expresses disappointment over the low percentage of treated forest land.

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