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Show I Sagebrush Rebellion leader jets cold shoulder for DOI spot i'llo ihe Vernal Express) "JHeleneC.Monberg WMi-Attorney John Harmer M Utah, who wants to be 1 f Interior in the Reagan 'on, got the cold shoulder 'Reagan forces when he was ( up support for himself this 5j !!-"lhave gotten no calls," he h has been described by a f! "ion-Ford Administration J sWfer who now works in oj lustry here as "the mover ; the Sagebrush Rebellion held in Salt Lake City on 55 ,;2' Harmer told this ?en' that he is counsel of states rights organization :sored the conference. a Headquarters is in Salt Lake c 0 :1t suPPorters of (former 1 . Hanse,, (R-Wyo.) got calls :! Reagan people. I have S 0 calls at all," the disap- er said. i af here drumming up t ,7 both the Utah and the J ngressional delegations, g 4Je'hol(l in both states. He ; ne is "a digger," very nt. When told that the propscd Alien-Warner "plant in Southern Utah is likely to go beUy-up before the end of the ye", Harmer first said "I doubt it." Then he added, I hoS it won't." Interior Secretary Cecil D.Andrus is expected to . make decision on allowing the plant to be built in southern Utah before the end of fhe year. It's apparent he .s leaning Tgainst it, staffers at Interior have told this correspondent. Harmer is genuinely surprised that fcJSTnot -eived the time oday from Reagan and Co. rttenuTov1 ITKu.. Shf tstdifted' for perjury in the S ty "yea- V He got his 0ffiCC AffA assistant AneTrVaduated from George ticulary livestockmen, miners, oil gas companies and mining companies operating under the general hard-rock mining laws. Married, with a large family and a Mormon, Harmer returned from California to his native Utah eight months ago, where he has most of his financial interests, he said. At the time Harmer was interviewed on Dec. 5, he said the Secretary of Interior or post appeared to be "wide-open" "wide-open" to him. Hansen was nixed by the Reagan people Decause he wanted the Senate Energy Committee, wnicn ha a to confirm him, to change and liberalize its financial disclosure laws. Hansen took himself out of the running this past week, but he was never offered of-fered the job, according to several Republican transition-team sources Also passed over at this time have teen Reps John J. Rhodes, R-Anz. Dick Cheney, R-Wyo.. and Gov. Jay Hammond, Ham-mond, R-Aiaska. RP- Manl Lujan R-N R-N M , a senior member of the House interior Committee, is the mos v.abl candidate at the moment Retiring Tomes P. Johnson, K-coio., is SnSoColoradotopracUcew; he has ben mentioned for the post. |