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Watching Government: DOI pressed to release report

07/01/2010
By Nick Snow
When US Interior Sec. Ken Salazar, soon after taking office, ordered the Bureau of Land Management to cancel 77 leases from a December 2008 lease sale in Utah, he said the tracts were included under pressure from the previous administration, and that their resource management plans were products of a flawed process.Now, says Michael McKee, a county commissioner in eastern Utah's Uintah County, it's time for Interior to make public findings of investigators from its inspector general's office that there wasn't pressure to include the disputed tracts in the sale after all."The courts and the public deserve to know how the cancelled 77 Utah oil and gas leases, which the Obama administra...
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