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High Country News Vol. 16.3, Feb. 20, 1984 \I The EPA's SU/lerlund wbistleblower How Hugh Kaufmanmoves theball . ....--~-"~--- , ____ -/)by Ed Marston Reagan lied about hazardous ~waste~ telling the public a great deal about- How much yardage? "We may be -,p~li.fY:.in.his- most rece'm State of the what he knows of how .the system on our own twenty. But twelve years . Back 1U 1981, the __Reag an Union address; he talks about operates, and with displaying pride in . ago, we weren't even in the stadium. Admiaistrarten asSigned investigators "criminal activity" in the EPA under his accomplishments. We weren't even suited up," ~-to- 'shadow Hugh Kaufman, an Anne Gorsuch Burford;. he gleefully "They could put me in a box with a Kaufman was among the first to engineer in the Hazardous Waste recounts, how hl~ex.-~oss, Rita telephone and zero responsibility, and suit up, joining the new EPA in 1971 section of the EPA. In the course of . Lavelle, ended up with a Jail sentence; l-would still move the ball. They can't after .the Air Force. He enjoyed the that surveillance, the investigators and he spec~lates that the team of stop me because I' have too much Nixon yeats, when the EPA was snapped a picture of Kaufman EPA ass as sins (Burford, James access to themedia and too good a headed fot the first rime by William slipping into a motel room with a Sanderson, James. Wall) from Colo- track record for telling the truth." Ruckleshaus, '. woman. The woman was Kaufman's rado were dispatched by Reagan K f II h' "Nixon, far and away, was the best wife. intimate Joe Coors. au;man te s _ one orror story environmental leader . He gave us the . after another. about both the Carter .That .investigation brought the EPA, he set in motion its.policies, and Kaufman is interesting because he and Reagan administrarions. But he Environmental Protection Agency and it was Nixon's people under Ford who really is a career bureaucrat. ''I'm not says he is neither discouraged nor its engineer national publicity. So now carried them out. Jimmy Carter was that different from the older cynical. "I'm an engineer, a problem Kaufman, a young 41 who chews supposed to be a great environmental- bureaucrats. We believe t~at govern- solver. And I've donemore in my life tobacco and spikes his talk . with ist, but his record in public health ment carries a responsibility to use the than I ever. thought I could." He's football lingo, takes leave twice a year matters was abysmal... He was public's money to solve the public's done it by "hitting the pressure from his federal job to fill college incompetent and a hypocrite." problems," . points, by getting word out on toxic speaking engagements set up by a Those are harsh words; especially Cambridge, Massachusetts agent. 'Bur he is different in one way. wastes. 1-nything else I do is gravy, since it was Carter who gave Kaufman At Reed College, at Oregon State, Despite his engineering background, "Remember: you 'never s9..1ve his chance to carry the ball. "I first i:loo..... OU"'Wl:Q!n~'eGollegein North Carolina, at his four years in the Air Force, and his these problems. It's like Ohio State became publicly known in 1978, when Minot State College in North Dakota, college football career, he is a child of University -- three yards and a doud of and at Mesa College in Grand the sixties. Unlike his older collea- dust. But the nation is making J unction he tells students that Ronald gues, he sees nothing wrong with yardage." . [Continued on page 13) II . , III r. --.' I. ,'/> \',' "J ".~.:-.",- v- --- ". -'" ... part T ., , . ::J~'.~" r, " {~ , .. -, ... ::--... "" -s " -. "", .' .,'. r, ~'~ ..~-/1.. ~ <:> ', •• .r, Sandy Tolan on the,,Central Arizona Already in type is a wondetful story by Project -- a multi-billion dollar network Russell Martin on how the Dolores of dams, canals, and pumping stations Project (McPhee Dam( in south- In the West, it is said, water is intended to give Arizona "its" share western Colorado will affect him and like.oxygen--at the very centet of life, of the Colorado River. The CAl:' is the his neighbors in Montezuma Valley. so important that it must be discussed last big diversion out of the- Colorado; Martin, the author of Cowboy: The in reverent tones, and without regard I its effects will reverberate from Enduring Myth of the Wild West, has to such everyday measures as costs Wyoming to California. written a personal account of land he and benefits, environmental impacts, Tolan has also written a short piece lives on and people he lives among. and the like. describing how one developer plans to Sandy Tolan also has a piece in the As a result of its holiness, build a new city of 110,000 near next issue on a New Mexican water discussions of water are rarely Tucson. All he needs is a lease from fight that recalls] ohn Nichols' The grounded. If you ask someone why several 'hundred Papagos Indians for Milagro Beanfield War. But Tolan's water is important, they will tell you their land and water. Aamodt case is guaranteed to have an about their granddaddy digging a The water theme is continued in a unhappy ending, pitting as it does the ditch by hand, or braining a neighbot review of a water study by Western Pueblo Indians against their Chicano who had moved his irrigating rock. Network, a non-profir group based in neighbors. Such stories are great fyn, but Santa Fe, and in two stories on the There are stories ip this week's they're of little use these days, when heavy early snow that hit the Rockies issue which have nothing to do with ditches are dug with big Cats and in Decembet. The first discusses what water. The lead story, in fact, is an lined with. concrete, or when the may happen on the Colorado River this interview with' an extraordinary feuding. neighbors are Arizona and spring. The second speculates on how bureaucrat named Hugh Kaufman -- California, braining each other with rhewater willaffect the coal and utility an EPA employee who hit the national attorneys and Congressmen. industries in the RockyMountains and news last year for slipping into a motel So the next .rwo -issues of High Grear.Plains. room with his wife. That historic Country News are attempts to We .wish _ we .could report ~moment was recorded on film by examine the specialness of water; to penetration to the heart of the matter. federal operatives hoping to blackmail help see the ocean for the droplets. Unfortunately, we couldn't find the whistleblower, Instead, he got a The approach is to mix stories that anyone who knows, or who would tell job for' life. Those who admired give an overview of water issues with us, what the additional hydropowet Richard Nixon and ] erry Ford will examinations of their on-the-ground will do. The story is printed more to enjoy the article. Those who think effects. The hope is to create a raise questions than provide answers, highly of Jimmy Carter and Ronald foundation on which we can build Perhaps a reader has the answers. Reagan may want to skip Kaufman future stories on the three river basins . This week's water issue is more and go on to the Bulletin Board which, $.l. I j<t-<{" ., ~:--:-:: HCN covets. overview than grassroots. The next as always, is informative. High Cou~ir:y' News The Issue opens with a pIece by will be more grassroots than overview. --tbestaff HIGH COUNTRY NEWS (ISSN/OI911 ~657) is published biweekly, except for one issue during August and- one issue during .. January, by the High Country News Foundation, 224 Grand Avenue, Paonia, Colorado, 81428. Second-class postage paid at Paonia, Colorado. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Wyoming's Red Rim dispute continues HIGH COUNTRY,NEWS, Box V, Paonia, CO 81428. mining could be allowed in the entire rnent, the federal land ownership Tom Bell Tom Dougherty of the Wyoming Wildlife Federation believes there is'a "area without harming the antelope's would be consolidated in the southern ,Editor Emeritus ' Ed Marston 50-50 chance that parties wiJlreach a critical winter range, he said he now . portion, Lawrence's private" hoTdillgs , PMblisher compromise on the Red Rim antelope believes inining could be allowed in would be in the north. Betsy Marston controversy before a Federation rhe north section with certain Reclamation is still an unsettled Editor- deadline. If there is no compromise by restrictions. Mining would take place question in the negotiations. Dough- ]u'dy Moffatt the end of .February, he said, the on only a small percentage of the erty said his organization wants proof Promotion wildlife gtoUp wiJl proceed with northern area. that Rocky Mountain Energy can Marjane Ambler preparation for a mining unsuitability If the federal agencies agree, reclaim the mining area adequately to Carol Jones Glenn Oakley hearing, which would be held April 9. Lawrence would receive land in the provide wildlife habitat. Dorothy Reid Geoffrey O:Gara Dougherty said the Federation, north section in exchange for his land of Rocky Mountain Energy said the C.L. Rawlins Rocky Mountain Energy Company, that would not be mined in the soutb company, which is a subsidiary of Peter Wild section. Ptesently, the land ownership . Union Pacific, does not plan to develop Dan Whipple and rancher Taylor Lawrence have Conltibllting Editors already agreed on a line of is in a checkerboard pattern with the coal for 3·5 years because of the Mary Moran demarcation, south of whichno coal federal sections alternating with " soft coal market.
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