In late 1987 I worked for three months through an employment agency for the Office of General Counsel (OGC), Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), Knoxville, Tennessee writing deposition summaries.
Norman Zigrossi, TVA General Counsel 1987, was the head of the FBI office in Rapid City, S.D. on June 26, 1975, the FBI stormed onto the Jumping Bull compound on the Pine Ridge Reservation under the pretext of merely serving a warrant on Jimmy Eagle, a Native teenager accused of stealing a used pair of boots. Zigrossi defended the bureau's use of illegal action against the Lakota people by stating that Native people were a "conquered nation", and that the FBI was merely acting as a "colonial police force". Zigrossi went on to say, "when you're conquered, the people you're conquered by dictate your future. This is a basic philosophy of mine. If I'm part of a conquered nation, then I've got to yield to authority". (January 2007 - If were going to use their Uranium We Have to Pay them For It. My wife Amy lived and worked near Rapid City with the Lakota Sioux for four years in the early 1990's and it would break her heart to see anything happen to them. - PINE RIDGE URANIUM MINE REOPENING - BC Supreme Court set to decide Graham’s extradition fate
The 1987 case involved a suit by the Tennessee Valley
Authority against United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) and its Church Rock,
New Mexico mined and milled
uranium. Now a CERCLA Superfund Cleanup Site. TVA had contracted years before from UNC the uranium
for their then defunct nuclear power
plants. I was assigned by Carol Smith, wife of TVA lawyer
Lawrence Smith to a small room where for eight hours a day I wrote
summaries for the TVA lawyers assigned the task of seeing that TVA be
released from the contract to buy the mined and milled uranium located
in Church Rock, New Mexico.
TVA, in its case against UNC had claimed several improprieties by UNC
in their mining safety and environmental standards. The Navajo,
whose well water was contaminated were getting sick and dying because
of the leaching of the mined uranium into the groundwater. Of
course TVA had purchased the uranium years before and had not their
nuclear program all but collapsed this case would never have
happened. Also an issue was the inability of the Navajo miners to
read and understand safety signs and proper methods of escape should
there be a mining emergency. The proper training had not been
given the miners on either of these issues by UNC. TVA had called
in
both the New Mexico mining inspectors and the Occupational Safety and
Health Administration (OSHA) along with the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) to
inspect and testify in their behalf against the large mining company
(UNC). This was all in Federal Court New Mexico. I
read
all the testimony given for three months and according to Mrs. Smith
was the only person who had been brought in that seemed to understand
what the case was all about and was proficient enough to get the
summaries back to the lawyers before they returned to the trial in New
Mexico.
TVA harassed the UNC lawyers with so many inspectors and fines, threats
of fines and made such fools of them by using the miners and the
miners'
drinking water contamination as reason to close the mines, that the UNC
lawyers conceeded the case in
December 1986. On the last day of the year the entire office,
OGC, was called to an upstairs banquet room by then Chairman Chili
Dean, TVA Board (1981-88) and a champaign toast was given in honor of
everyone who had worked on the case.
In 1922, oil was discovered on the Navajo Reservation. Standard Oil of California wanted access to the oil, but the U.S. government, as trustee, could not legally lease the Navajo land, without tribal consent, and there was not tribal entity that could legally sign. The Navajo Tribe had no governing body, and leadership was decentralized among many different local headmen. The U.S. government called a meeting of influential headmen to the San Juan Agency on May 1922 to lease the land, yet the headmen rejected all leasing applications. Therefore, the Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall of New Mexico, invented a series of legal fictions to facilitate oil leasing. He created a Navajo "Business Council" of 3 Council members to sign and approve the oil leases on the Navajo Reservation. This was the beginning of the Navajo Tribal Council.
In 1923, the Navajo Tribal Council was legally formed. The U.S. government made an effort to organize a more representative Navajo Tribal Council for purposes of mineral leasing. B.I.A. superintendents supervised the election of delegates from a larger geographical area on the Navajo Reservation to sit in what would be called the Navajo Tribal Council. The new council authorized the interior official (Hagerman) to negotiate all future oil and gas leases. The question of Indian rights to revenues from oil and gas leases raised issues of Indian title to the land itself, and formed the basis of a new round of land struggles.
In the 1930s, the Navajo Tribal Council was organized with a membership of 12 delegates and 12 alternates. This body was also organized under rules written and authorized by the Secretary of Interior. These rules became the first governing laws of the Navajo Tribe.
The present laws of the Navajo Nation are contained in the Navajo Tribal Code book containing more the 24 sections.
On December 15, 1989, the Navajo Nation Council amended the Navajo Tribal Code to begin to gradually take back essential powers of self-government.
Today, the Navajo Nation has the country's largest tribal government body. It is governed by 88 tribal council members, elected every four years by popular vote by the Navajo people on and off the reservation.
Large-scale uranium mining began
in the early 1950s (see Time Line E-2)
with the opening of the Jackpile mine, an open-pit mine. By the late
1950s, a number of large mines were operating at Ambrosia Lake and the
Church Rock mining district became active in the late 1970s. The
industry continued operating into the early 1990s, longer than in other
U.S. locations.
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by: Swaneagle Harijan The fate of those relocated will
be seen in retrospect as a major human rights violation of the late
20th centurty within U.S. borders. Thousands of relocatees have died
over the past l5 years. Thousands are homeless and then there are those
forced to live on the \"New Lands\" where the suicide rate is among the
highest in the nation. The water source has been tainted by the largest
nuclear spill in U.S. history when United Nuclear\'s Church Rock dam
broke in 1973 spilling 97 million gallons of highly redioactive
contaminants into the Rio Puerco. The barren landscape is not conducive
to the raising of corn or the herding of sheep. People live in misery
awaiting death. The promised training and jobs never materialized.
Assimilation is no success story.
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DISPOSAL OF URANIUM TAILINGS[ . . . original version ]
Since 1978, when this CCNR report ("Nuclear Wastes: What, Me Worry?") was first written, much new information has become available on both the health risks from uranium tailings and the technical difficulties associated with their disposal. Indeed, the word "disposal" seems the wrong word to use. We do not really know how to dispose of any toxic materials, least of all uranium tailings. "Advanced dumping" might be a more suitable appellation.
The largest single release of radiotoxic materials into the environment -- prior to the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 -- occurred when a huge tailings dam in Church Rock, New Mexico, suddenly collapsed in 1979. Millions of tons of sandy tailings poured into the river, necessitating the wholesale slaughter of contaminated cattle downstream from the accident. The Church Rock dam was a brand new one, touted by those in the uranium industry as a "state of the art" structure. There have been over thirty less spectacular tailings dam failures in the Elliot Lake region.
NRC FINES UNITED NUCLEAR $100,000 FOR FAILING TO SET ASIDE FUNDS FOR DECOMMISSIONING CHURCH ROCK URANIUM MILL
(Feb 14, 1997) "The Nuclear Regulatory Commission staff has proposed a fine of $100,000 against United Nuclear Corporation, of Gallup, New Mexico, for failing to properly comply with a January 1992 order to set aside $16.4 million needed to decommission and decontaminate the Church Rock uranium mill site near Gallup." [NRC Region IV Press Relase 97/10]> View Notice of Violation EA 93-170
In March 1997, NRC had issued the Final Environmental Impact
Statement (FEIS) on the Crownpoint project as NUREG-1508 in March 1997.
In this FEIS, NRC staff concluded that potential impacts of the project
can be mitigated and the license should be issued. [NRC Press
Release No.97-047 
; Federal
Register, March 21, 1997 (Vol.62, No.55), p.13725-13726 ].
For an Errata to this FEIS, see Federal
Register: Nov.18, 1997 (Vol.62, No.222), p.61556-61557
On December 5, 1997, NRC had issued its safety evaluation report for
the Crownpoint project (NRC press
release 97-179 ). The safety evaluation report
concluded that, if certain specified conditions are met, issuance of a
license will not be inimical to public health and safety or to the
common and defense and security, and will meet the requirements of NRC
regulations and the Atomic Energy Act.
> View Safety
Evaluation Report (125k) , or Download (175k, PDF)
In its comments on the Crownpoint Final EIS, the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency stated "EPA continuous to express concern regarding
pressure control of groundwater in old mine workings, hydrogeologic
monitoring and aquifer testing and analysis, baseline water quality,
injection well design, aquifer restoration, wildlife and mitigation,
waste management and emergency response, and indemnification to the
federal government by the project proponent." [Federal
Register, October 31, 1997 (Vol. 62, No. 211), p. 58969-58970 ]
> View details
on the Crownpoint
uranium ISL project and its impacts.
Environmental Protection Agency Meeting with United Nuclear Corporation, April 22, 1998
"On April 22, 1998, a representative from the Division of Waste Management participated in an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Meeting with United Nuclear Corporation (UNC), New Mexico Environmental Department, and the Navajo Nation. The purpose of the Meeting was to discuss the EPA's draft five-year review of corrective action at UNC's Church Rock uranium mill site. UNC's Church Rock site is a Nuclear Regulatory Commission-licensed superfund site currently undergoing corrective action for a groundwater plume that developed from leachate generated by a uranium tailings impoundment. UNC provided its comments on the draft as well as its plans for site closure. The regulatory agencies provided comments on the tentative closure plans, and discussed options available to UNC for site closure including Alternate Concentration Limits and Technical Infeasiblity waivers." (NRC Weekly Information Report for the Week Ending May 1, 1998) On January 23, 1998, an administrative law judge with the NRC's Atomic Safety and Licensing Board (ASLB) ordered a temporary stay of the HRI license awarded by the NRC staff on January 5. The judge's order was in response to a January 15 motion filed by Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) and Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC) seeking a stay of the license until ASLB holds an evidentiary hearing and NRC completes historic and cultural site reviews pursuant to the National Historic Preservation Act.On April 2, 1998, the Presiding Officer of the ASLB issued a Memorandum and Order denying the petitioners' motion for stay and request for prior Hearing, lifting the temporary stay, and denying motions to strike and for leave to reply in the ongoing Subpart L proceeding (10 CFR 2.1263) regarding the matter of HRI.
On January 5, 1998, Hydro Resources Inc.
received a license for its proposed uranium in-situ leaching facilities
at Church Rock and Crownpoint, New Mexico. [NRC Press
Release No.98-01]
On October 19, 1999, the State of New Mexico approved the water rights application for HRI's Church Rock In-Situ Leach mining project in northwest New Mexico.
<>On August 20, 1999, the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission Atomic Safety Licensing Board (ASLB) upheld the source materials license previously issued to HRI Inc. for its Crownpoint uranium in-situ leach project. In a decision denying the relief sought by intervenor groups seeking to invalidate HRI's license, the ASLB administrative law judge concluded, "the ISL mining project on Church Rock Section 8, with the license conditions imposed on it by the Staff of the Commission, does not pose a credible threat to the environment or to human health and safety." (URI Aug. 24, 1999)On Nov. 21, 2000, HRI submitted the requested Restoration Action Plan for the Church Rock Section 8 site of the proposed Crownpoint Uranium Project. On Feb. 27, 2004, an NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board panel found at the request of intervenors Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM) and Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC) that the associated financial assurance plan was inadequate. HRI thus still can't conduct any ISL mining.
> Download LBP-04-03,
LB MEMORANDUM AND ORDER (Ruling on Restoration Action Plan), Feb. 27,
2004 (PDF)
On May 25, 2000, the NRC, at the request of The Eastern Navajo Diné Against Uranium Mining (ENDAUM), the Southwest Research and Information Center (SRIC), and others, put Hydro Resources' license on hold:
"Based on our review of LBP-99-13, the briefs filed in response to CLI-99-22, and other germane portions of the record, we conclude that HRI has failed thus far to submit an adequate financial assurance plan and that, until it does, it cannot use the license it has received from the NRC. We therefore add an additional condition to HRI's license prohibiting use of the license until an NRC-approved financial assurance plan is in place." (NRC Memorandum and Order CLI-00-08, available through ADAMSOn January 19, 2000 the Navajo Nation lifted its 1983 uranium mining moratorium for in-situ leaching (details).
On August 22, 2002, HRI requested a license renewal for the Crownpoint project (SUA-1580) for a second term from January 6, 2003 through January 5, 2008.
See also Federal Register: December 16, 2002 (Volume 67, Number
241),
p. 77084-77085 (download full
text )
On July 24, 2001, HRI submitted the Restoration Action Plan for the Church Rock Section 17 site; it was approved by NRC approved on August 22, 2001.
On November 21, 2001, HRI submitted the Restoration Action Plan for
Crownpoint; it was approved by NRC on December 20, 2001.
On September 17, 2001, HRI submitted the Restoration Action Plan for
Crownpoint Unit One; it was approved by NRC on October 16, 2001.
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September 07, 2001 Contacts: Lori Goodman (970) 259-0199
Ed Brickey (970) 523-7460/216-1175 Melton Martinez (505) 287-3848 BUSH Abandoning R.E.C.A.- While setting aside $30M to start new uranium mining!"Last year, Congress clearly mandated payments under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to former uranium miners, workers and Downwinders," said Melton Martinez, President of Eastern Navajo Uranium Workers. "But now, the government is denying and delaying justice by changing the rules, and have even stated clearly their priority constituents." Martinez was referring to a bill introduced by Rep Wilson (R-NM), House Energy Bill (HR4) that would give $30 million dollars to companies to start uranium mining, in the same area, where ill miners denied compensation live.Those who ignore mistakes of the past are doomed to repeat them. This seems to be what the Bush administration is doing in failing to recognize the injuries and injustices to the previous generation of uranium miners, by supporting new mining ventures without correcting old wrongs. Where is the compassion in even considering inflecting the same harm on the next generation without a thought for those presently suffering?Hazel Merritt, President of Utah Navajo Downwinders said, "Our compassionate conservative is delaying legislation to constituents least able to fight back, due to their illnesses and being elders. I guess this compassion is only reserved for the corporations." Merritt continued, "All we ask is for our elected leaders to obey the laws governing the RECA compensation program so that some of our people can still receive the benefits due them."JUSTICE, again being denied by changing the rules, by not issuing required regulations, and the continued manipulation of the RECA budget is a sad chapter documenting the ongoing legacy of uranium mining in the Four Corners states.. Justice delayed is Justice denied!Edward L. Brickey, President Colorado Uranium Workers Council and Western States R.E.C.A. Reform Coalition Co-Chair said, "The law said that the D.O.J. had 180 days to produce the rules and regulations for public law 106-245. That time was up January 10, 2001. It is 8 months overdue. So, does that not make our government in contempt of the law?" "Why do we allow them to make a mockery of our system of government? Is there any one held accountable for the job they should do for the citizens of this nation? Don't they understand the mental anguish and stress they are putting on our sick and elders? I hope and pray, as many do, Bush will guarantee that the law will be upheld, and justice finally served for the sick and dying radiation victims of our nation."The Western States RECA Reform Coalition consists of representatives of grassroots radiation victim's organizations from the states of NM, CO, AZ & UT working together in a force uniting people of different ethnic, geographic, religious and political backgrounds. Organizations includes: Colorado Plateau Uranium Workers, Colorado Uranium Workers Council, Navajo RECA Reform Working Group, Utah Navajo Downwinders, Northern Arizona Navajo Downwinders, Eastern Navajo Uranium Workers, Lukachukai Uranium Workers, Church Rock Uranium Workers and Dine' CARE.Dine' CARE |
Mon Mar 15, 2004
Strathmore Acquires New Mexico Uranium Deposits
STRATHMORE MINERALS CORP. ("the company") is pleased to announce that it has agreed to acquire two significant Uranium Deposits, both located within the Grants Uranium Belt of New Mexico, United States. The Grants Uranium District is one of the premier uranium districts in the world, and has produced over 340 million pounds of uranium.
Based on over 150 drill holes, prior operators previously reported over 6 million pounds of contained U3O8, for the Church Rock Uranium Deposit. The deposit was previously explored by Kerr McGee of New Mexico. The Roco Honda uranium deposit has previously been reported to contain over 12 million pounds of U3O8, at an average grade of 0.31% U3O8. The project has been the subject of an extensive drill program conducted in the late 1970's and early 1980's. Additional work including feasibility studies and mining planning were completed; however, the collapse of uranium prices in 1980 prevented the planned mining operations.
Subject to regulatory approval, the Company will pay $150,000 US and issue 300,000 shares over two years for the acquisition of both the Church Rock and Roco Honda uranium deposits.
Rio Puerco Review Team, UNC-Church Rock Uranium Mill Tailings Dam Breach - GGI was retained by the Navajo Nation and DNA Peoples Legal Services to participate in review and analyses of 2 years of water quality and sedimentation data after the UNC-Church Rock uranium mill tailings dam broke. GGI personnel had designed the soil and water sampling program immediately after the spill to determine the extent and magnitude of radioactive and heavy metal contamination. GGI co-authored a report detailing analytical results and made recommendations for groundwater use and monitoring, and for surface water uses for livestock watering.
Church Rock / Crownpoint project (ISL)
On July 20, 2005, an NRC Atomic Safety and Licensing Board issued a decision (LBP-05-17), reducing the secondary groundwater restoration standard for uranium from 0.44 mg/L to 0.03 mg/L (equivalent to EPA's drinking water standard), and demanding changes to the Restoration Action Plan:
"This decision resolves the issues embodied in the first category of challenges. For the reasons set forth below, I find – with the concurrence of Dr. Richard Cole and Dr. Robin Brett, who have been appointed Special Assistants – that HRI has demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence that the intervenors' challenges relating to groundwater protection, groundwater restoration, and surety estimates do not provide a basis for invalidating HRI's license to perform ISL uranium mining at Section 17, Crownpoint, and Unit 1. However, I direct thatNavajo Nation outlaws uranium mining
(1) HRI's license be revised to reduce the secondary groundwater restoration standard for uranium from 0.44 mg/L to 0.03 mg/L, and
(2) HRI's Restoration Action Plan be revised to include a cost estimate for expenses associated with disposal site unloading, surveying, and decontamination."
Bakersfield Californian ^ | 4/21/05 | AP
Posted on 04/21/2005 10:10:56 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) - The Navajo Nation has outlawed uranium mining and processing on its reservation, which sprawls across parts of Arizona, New Mexico and Utah and contains one of the world's largest deposits of uranium ore.
Tribal President Joe Shirley Jr. must give the bill final approval. His spokesman said Thursday that Shirley "strongly" supports it.
Mining companies began blasting holes on the reservation, which covers 27,000 square miles, in the 1940s and continued for nearly 40 years until decreased demand closed the operations.
By then, the Navajos were left with radiation sickness, contaminated tailings and abandoned mines. To avoid repeating the past, Navajo leaders and grassroots organizations have been working for years to keep mining from starting again.
The Navajo Nation Council voted 63-19 Tuesday in favor of the mining ban. Several council delegates predicted the legislation will be challenged in court - possibly as far as the Supreme Court.
Members of Navajo grassroots organizations celebrated outside the council's chambers after the measure was approved.
"This legislation just chopped the legs off the uranium monster," said Norman Brown, a member of one of the groups, Dine Bidzii. Dine is the Navajos' name for themselves.
The legislation prohibits pit mining as well as "in-situ" processing, which involves using a solution to leach out uranium and pump it to the surface.
Hydro Resources Inc. has been working with the federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission for years to get approval for in-situ mining near the Navajo communities of Crownpoint and Church Rock. The company estimated nearly 100 million pounds of uranium exist at the sites.
Hydro Resources has argued that in-situ mining is safer than older
methods, but opponents note that 15,000 people rely on the area's
underground aquifer and they fear contamination from the proposed
operation.
My one and probably the greatest advice that I could ever give anyone that truely is interested in beginning to solve the present energy crisis is (1) Throw the Oil Man that presently sits in the Oval Office Out. (2) Hold the Tennessee Valley Authority accountable for it's years and years of corruption and misuse and abuse of it's "authority" and so called wise use of not only southeastern coal but midwestern uranium. Disolve the TVA into seperate entities that are responsible for their own power sources that could be bid to such companies as Duke Power. Those two things would elevate much of what is wrong with the U.S. Energy Problem as it is today. Oh, and I am not the only one that might think that way.
POGO says -
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is an independent nonprofit that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more accountable federal government. For over five years, POGO has been investigating the systemic security failures at our nation’s nuclear power plants. One of the most recent security incidents was at Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) Sequoyah nuclear power plant in Tennessee. One thing that I found when working with TVA back in 1978 that they do like to carry their guns around in their vehicles, assault rifles especially.
United States General Accounting Office
Report to the Chairman
Committee on Governmental Affairs
U.S. Senate
February 2000 TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Problems With Irrevocable Trust Raise Need for Additional OversightThe FBI/USAO investigation focused on whether Chairman Crowell's participation in the creation of CRS constituted a violation of 18 U.S.C. section 208. The investigation did not address CRS's questionable billing practices. The FBI conducted a number of interviews with TVA employees, including Mr. Zigrossi.
Mr. Zigrossi told us that he had conversations with Virgil Young, at the time the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Knoxville, Tennessee, FBI office. Prior to becoming TVA's Chief Administrative Officer, Mr. Zigrossi had been TVA's first IG and previously served as the SAC of the FBI Washington, DC, field office. ( Norman Zigrossi had also been Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) during the Pine Ridge incident against the OGLALA SIOUX 1972 - 1976) He asked SAC Young about the status of the FBI investigation of Chairman Crowell. However, SAC Young told us that while he did have conversations with Mr. Zigrossi during the FBI's investigation of Chairman Crowell, they did not discuss the investigation.
On August 22 or 23, 1996, at the request of SAC Young, a meeting was held at the USAO with the AUSA, the Chief Assistant, the FBI supervisor, the FBI case agent, and SAC Young attending this meeting. At that time, SAC Young attempted to convince the USAO that there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a case against Chairman Crowell. SAC Young told us that this was the first time he ever attempted to convince a U.S. Attorney not to pursue a prosecution. According to the FBI case agent, the arguments presented by SAC Young at the meeting were identical to those used by Mr. Zigrossi when the case agent interviewed Mr. Zigrossi. The FBI case agent stated that he believed that SAC Young presented Mr. Zigrossi's views as his own.
The Chief Assistant stated that he had had many dealings with SAC Young and it was unusual for him to have a working knowledge of an ongoing investigation. A senior FBI official in the Knoxville FBI office told us that SAC Young did not involve himself in operational matters, including the details of ongoing investigations. The AUSA told us that it was highly unusual for any investigative agency to argue against proceeding with a prosecution, because the agency normally pushes for prosecution. The FBI case agent stated that the AUSA was so incensed about SAC Young's argument against prosecution that he provided the SAC a copy of the section of the U.S. Attorney's handbook that clearly states that the USAO will determine what warrants prosecution.
Accordingly, on October 2, 1996, the USAO's First Assistant met with Justice's Public Integrity Section and the Associate Attorney General. During the meeting, the First Assistant discussed the status of the investigation and provided the following as reasons warranting the recusal of the U.S. Attorney and USAO: (1) the U.S. Attorney was a close personal friend of a former U.S. Senator and, as a result, has known Chairman Crowell for years; (2) the Eastern District of Tennessee had daily contact with individuals involved in the investigation; and (3) TVA's General Counsel's office worked closely with the Eastern District on civil and other TVA-related matters. The U.S. Attorney and members of his supervisory staff concluded that it would be difficult for the Eastern District to maintain an impartial posture in the investigation and prosecution of the allegations against Chairman Crowell.
We attempted to interview Chairman Crowell and Mr. Zigrossi, but both declined our request. We also attempted to interview the Public Integrity Section trial attorney who was assigned to the investigation of Chairman Crowell; however, Justice declined our request. We previously interviewed the AUSA assigned to the investigation of Chairman Crowell during our 1999 investigation of TVA. We attempted to interview the AUSA during this investigation; however, Justice declined our request.
As discussed with your office, unless you announce its contents earlier, we plan no further distribution of this report until 30 days after the date of this letter. At that time, we will send letters to interested congressional committees and members and make copies available to others upon request. If you have questions about our investigation, please contact me or Deputy Director for Investigations Donald Fulwider at (202) 512-7455. Assistant Director John Ryan was a key contributor to this investigation.
Sincerely yours,
Robert H. Hast
Acting Assistant Comptroller General
for Special Investigations
Remember the greatest victory that the Tazewell area ever saw and probably why there is a settlement named Tazewell at all? Well it was the very first. The Pioneers defeated the Indians - Nothing like the latest Panthers defeating the Bulldogs but notable -The settlement at Fort BUTLER was once attacked by a large squad of Indians. The whites succeeded in getting them surrounded on a high bluff near the mouth of SYCAMORE and pressed them until they jumped over the cliff and were either killed or drowned. They killed nearly all the enemy. This was a great victory for Fort BUTLER. They were not molested any more for a long time.
For all you Rocky Top fans maybe this is what you should do. Dirve up on Cherokee Bluff, gather all your big orange memorbillia and jump off. If you can't CUT IT GO JUMP OFF A CLIFF, right?
More profits, bonuses for utility Tennessee Valley Authority December 13, 2007 - In a separate report to the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, TVA detailed incentive payments greater than $25,000 to 54 top executives.
TVA President and CEO Tom Kilgore earned total compensation of $1.84 million for the fiscal year, up from $1.59 million last year. Kilgore is eligible to make $2.7 million next year under a compensation plan approved last month by TVA's board.
Both of my jobs with the Tennessee Valley Authority entailed taking a No. 2 lead pencil and legal pad and writing at length several pages of deposition. I enjoyed the heck out of both of them.
