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Show Moss Wins First Round On Ogden Foresf Office Washington, D.C. Utah Senator Frank E. (Ted) Moss today won the first round in his fight to prevent pre-vent the Forest Service from closing its regional region-al office in Ogden, Utah. In a very unusual move, the Senate Interior Appropriations Ap-propriations Subcommittee Subcom-mittee has agreed to honor ho-nor Moss' request to specifically prohibit the use of funds for closing the Ogden office. The prohibitive lan- MHWIKCUDnMaBiBi guage was promised to Moss by Subcommittee Chairman Senator Alan Bible of Nevada after Moss made the request in testimony before the committee. If approved by the Congress, Con-gress, it would effectively effective-ly block the Forest Service Ser-vice from going ahead with plans to close the Ogden office and three other offices in other parts of the U.S. Moss has told the Subcommittee Sub-committee that he realized real-ized this would be "drastic" "dras-tic" action, but indicated that he felt his communications commun-ications with the Forest Service had fallen on "deaf executive department depart-ment ears." The Senator has been involved in the struggle since early March when he and Congressman Gunn McKay were briefed brief-ed on closure plans. Moss indicated to the Appropriations Subcommittee Subcom-mittee today that he doubts that moving the Ogden office to Denver, Colorado will save any money. He also indicated that he believes the Forest For-est Service would be unable un-able to manage Utah forests for-ests well from several hundred miles away. |