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Affidavit of David Sturdevant, p. 2 January 2, 1990 



I am aware. ADEC has no records of earlier reporting of water 

 quality violations, and no records of communication by the Forest 

 Service regarding monitoring of the implementation or 

 effectiveness of management practices. The Forest Service has 

 recently compiled a manual of "best management practices," called 

 the "Soil and Water Conservation Handbook. " This handbook could 

 provide the basis for, but does not constitute, a program to 

 monitor effectiveness of management practices. During my tenure 

 in this position, there has been no meeting between ADEC and the 

 Forest Service in regard to the MOU. Records indicate that the 

 first meeting pursuant to the MOU was held on October 28, 1983. 

 An internal ADEC memo of November 1983 stated that the MOU was 

 being "ignored or lived up to in perfunctory, token fashion." 

 The last meeting between the agencies on the MOU apparently was 

 held in 1986. 



4. Records indicate that ADEC sent a letter to the Forest 

 Service in November 1983 "to initiate the process of 

 implementing, in a straightforward, systematic fashion, the major 

 provisions in the USFS/DEC MOU of 1980." ADEC has no records to 

 indicate further significant interactions in regard to 

 implementing the MOU, and there have been no such interactions 

 during my tenure in this position, so far as I am aware. 



