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SINE SY: ~8-95 1 ~ OOP10 0 ~' 303 832 8106: # 4/ 9 April 5, 1995 Page 3 FOURTH - Yes I am in contact with OSM staff- I have had to educate th'_ Denver OSM office due to the fact that U1tAM and KAY iiid not issue an affirmative decision for the Albuquerque office and removed the OSM-Albuquerque field office as the lead agency. OSM-Albuquerque had spent 12 months on the issues made the basis of our citizen's complaint. It. r.:ade absolutely no sense to remove oSM- Albuquerque from this process and place Denver OSM in the picture. I've been told that Denver has the appropriate technical people and OSM-Albuquerque doesn't. What Uram and Kay neglect to acknowledge is that OSM-Albuquerque had all the information available on my complaint, Denver did not and does not and OSM-Albuquerque has always had the ability to call in the technical people required to' investigate my complaints. Keep in mina that the State of Colorado initially failed to provide OSM-Albuquerque with accurate information necessary for o5M-Albuquerque to investigate the issues raised in our citizen's complaint, and in their infinite wisdom, Uram and ?;ay placed the same agency back in charge of the THIRD inve°:tigation. Taxpayer's dollars at work - I suggest not!!!!! An unnecessary waste of Taxpayers money, not to mention the money that we have had to expend. Our citizen's complaint was filed in December, 199J. Here we are, some sixteen months later. Our damages increase, we incur tremendous expense in proving our position while the bureaucrats play their games, disregard the laws and lie. In short, the response you received from pram is not "useful" t.o me_ Mr, Uram offered his help to you and me. I suggest you Cake him up on his offer, review all the material I have provided herein, and request an intelligent, responsive, honesi:, explanation from Uram. Ask Uram why, now 16 months later, OSM Washington still hasn't done what OSM watt suppose to do in FIFTEEN DAYS. Tell him to issue his finding, render an affirmative finding for OSM- Albuquerque, thus placing the Federal government in ct~aryc. It doesn't take ~. mc~~ital giant to realize that the State of Colorado can't, find for the citizen without admitting that they, the State of Colorado, failed initially to monitor this coal mine. Mr. Uram 3isplays a "coal mine" attitude in his performance. could this be because he represented the coal industry before he became the "Director of OSM"? Mr. Uram needs to listen to his field office personnel- They are the eyes and ears of OSM and in this instant matter, OSM-