Word: osme
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Dates: during 1981-1981
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...billion Interior Department appropriation bill containing provisions that would forbid some of the Secretary's proposals. Among them is Watt's plan to streamline the Office of Surface Mining, which has already led to intradepartmental mutiny. In May Watt decided to shut down the Denver office of OSM, which supervises strip-mining operations in eight Western states, and ordered 113 of its 133 employees to move, most of them to somewhat less cosmopolitan Casper, Wyo. So far, 26 have quit, and 72 filed suit in federal court to block the transfer. The House appropriation bill would bar funds...
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