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On the recordMay 11, 2016
To follow on the last line of questioning about centralization of decisionmaking--Mr. Obermueller, if field managers and state directors are removed from the rule as the specific go-to people with direct responsibility for drafting and approving resource management plans, who then becomes responsible?
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Cynthia Lummis
Republican · Wyoming

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Lummis questions the removal of local decision-makers in resource management.

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