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P.S. There are 387 comments so far appended to the...

2008-10-02T14:36:00.000-05:00

P.S. There are 387 comments so far appended to the docket on the DOI webpage, so you CAN comment online. but if you want to call, here is phone contact information:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks, 1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC 20240; telephone: 202-208-4416; or James H. Lecky, Director, Office of
Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910; telephone: 301-713-2332.

I was able to submit a comment directly to the DOI...

2008-10-02T14:32:00.000-05:00

I was able to submit a comment directly to the DOI website, clicking on the "Myths..." BS link, then clicking on the Comment link. It pulls up a page with a Docket number that is hotlinked. If you click on that, it takes you to a page
http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064806c5826
By clicking on the Docket number link and filling out a form, I was able to leave a comment. You can read the public comments that have already been "opened" by the agency. I hope it works.

I sent mine! Thanks for pushing this issue-- I'm ...

2008-10-02T14:02:00.000-05:00

I sent mine! Thanks for pushing this issue-- I'm glad you're doing it, considering that there seems to be so little about it being said anywhere else.

yeah, my office (one of those federal agencies thi...

2008-10-02T13:29:00.000-05:00

yeah, my office (one of those federal agencies this proposal is going to give more work to) compiled a list of concerns and comments and sent it up through our chain of command. guess how many of our comments were put into the final letter? that's right, zero! So now we're all writing individually as "concerned citizens" since we're not allowed to "falsely represent" the organization. grrr.

I would like to say thank you for bringing this to...

2008-10-02T12:02:00.000-05:00

I would like to say thank you for bringing this to public attention. If I had not stopped by and read your blog today then I would never have known this was even happening. So thank you!

It should probably also be noted that since the An...

2008-10-02T11:53:00.000-05:00

It should probably also be noted that since the Anthrax letter scare in 2001, every single snail mail letter to congressmen is subject to intense bio-terror screening that tacks weeks to the actual arrival date.

So phone is the best way because a letter sent today will likely not be received until after the deadline, which honestly, is probably the main reason they are only accepting letters as opposed to e-mails.