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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 2001

In a letter published today in The New York Times, Secretary of Interior Gale Norton responds to an editorial the paper wrote accusing the Bush administration of moving to "dismantle major elements of Bill Clinton's environmental legacy."

The paper had said Norton used the "eleventh hour" excuse as a reason to offer new mining regulations when in fact the Clinton adminitration had worked on the protections for years. But in her letter, Norton says the public wasn't allowed to comment on a particular portion of the old regulations, so she revised only that section.

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Letter: New Mining Rules (Gale A. Norton. The New York Times 11/2) Editorial: More Environmental Rollbacks (The New York Times 10/29)
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