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Lang has written at least as much during his information campaigns. His "cc list" of correspondents, which ranges from OMB Director David Stockman and columnist Jack Anderson to President Bok, transmits Lang's views on issues to every newspaper, government official, book reviewer and professor whose involvement he gets wind...
Lang has also compiled files for private circulation on such issues as the imprisonment of a dissident Russian mathematician, grade inflation at Yale and Circular A-21 (still in progress), the OMB's set of guidelines for documenting research costs. "Every time you talk about Serge Lang you end up as part of a file," says Lionel S. Lewis, professor of sociology at the State University of New York, who wrote a flattering review of The File. "The editor [of that book] said apparently Lang must own shares of Xerox...
...high to protect workers from the chemical, one of the most dangerous the agency says it has ever regulated. But then David Stockman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, asked OSHA to withdraw its new standard, whose cost to U.S. industry is estimated to be $30 million. OMB asked for more time to study the economic impact of the rule...
...told congressional probers that they believed Burford was playing partisan politics last year when she delayed announcing a $6 million cleanup grant for California's Stringfellow acid pits. Burford denied the accusation. Her former chief of staff, John Daniel, testified that officials of the President's OMB pressured the EPA to consider industry costs before implementing regulations, even in cases where EPA is barred by law from weighing such considerations. Daniel also claimed that OMB forwarded some EPA-proposed regulations to industry groups before they were made public...
OSHA, which has been criticized for failing to set a standard of maximum dust concentrations in grain elevators to avoid spontaneous explosions, blames OMB for the delay. In fact, all but three of 22 new safety rules proposed by OSHA have been blocked by the budget agency. "OMB has no technical knowledge," contends Thomas Seymour, OSHA's deputy director of safety standards. "They get their slant from contacts in industry...