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To: stockman_scott who wrote (79937)	5/5/2010 9:01:40 PM
From: T L Comiskey	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 89467

Blow out switches..not required... online.wsj.com " By 2003, U.S. regulators decided remote-controlled safeguards needed more study. A report commissioned by the Minerals Management Service said "acoustic systems are not recommended because they tend to be very costly." A spokesman for the agency, Nicholas Pardi, said the decision not to require the device came, in part, after the agency took a survey that found most rigs already had back-up systems of some kind. Those systems include the unmanned submarines BP has been using to try to close the seabed valve." 2003..!! On Bush's watch...Yet Again....