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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (4397)	2/22/2006 6:32:05 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Our system gives standing to anyone with a first class stamp and the willingness to put a complaint in an envelope. Once I reviewed a bunch of appeals filed by these guys. One of them appealed a project on the grounds that it didn't use the advanced methods used "on Administrative Unit X," which would have addressed the defects claimed in the appeal. The project WAS planned on Administrative Unit X, with the advanced methods cited in the appeal. The appellants had failed to update their word processor, because they were interested in getting on to the next appeal. Literally hundreds and by now thousands of appeals are filed by people who have no knowledge whatsoever of what they're appealing. It is a huge waste of agency resources, and frankly I don't know why the leadership puts up with it. If the projects being appealed actually had problems, I could understand the objections. The real reason they file the appeals is to make the projects so expensive that the agency will eventually abandon the whole program, which is exactly what happened to a large extent.