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Phone (608) 655-3439 \* (800) 655-1705 \* Fax (608) 655-4767

November 9, 2005

Docket \# 2002N-0273

**Dear Mr. Pritchett,**

**In reference to your letter and phone call of the other day, you asked
for an answer. First your plan sounds almost childish but I am going to
treat it as if it were for real. You have one cow in America that has an
unknown problem so you are going to change the whole U.S.A. way of doing
things that we have been doing for the last 100 years. Sounds a little
radical based on the numbers involved. I did check out the local
landfill and they will not take in this material. With no place to go
with this material, we are all done. Most of my employees have been here
15 to 30 years and they wouldn't know how to work anywhere else. I am 87
and one reason I am still running this business is because of the love
of my help. They beg me not to sell and I wouldn't tell them I am
closing, I don't have the heart to do it. I insist that if and when I
have to close this place because of one of your new regulations, I want
one of your kin to tell these lovely people what happened to their jobs.
Since I do not have the heart and your organization seems to enjoy such
things. As I mentioned before I am not asking any of my employees to so
the job anyway. You would have to pay us and I would have to hire new
people. So the next problem is where to go with the material, nowhere.
We can't bury it the DNR won't let me. They are a closed organization
like the FDA. I am putting big ads in the local papers telling the
public what happened and give them your phone number. You can explain.
The letter you sent me is an insult to my intelligence. Looks like
something that would come out of Moscow. It is insulting to tell me to
read it. What do you people think we have to do out here? I am 87 years
old, get to work at 6:45am every morning, leave about 5 pm, and don't go
to lunch. I do this 5 ½ days a week. I am certainly not going to read
that mumbo jumbo of some beurocrat that works from 9 am to 3 pm and goes
home early on Friday. I have more to do than read that proposal that
looks like a copy of the Webster's Dictionary. So go ahead and after 70
years in this business with no problem you guys are going to create a
bigger problem than you can even imagine. Be my guest, you are doing me
a favor, but not for my wonderful long time employees. Have fun opening
Pandora's Box.**

**Well I changed my mind and read some of your catalog. Funny every
government agency has to take 80 pages to say something that we in
private business can do in 2. Well it helps the loggers' woe the sierra
club. Mostly what you say is based on your love for the EU. Well I don't
think those European countries are any success story in anything. But
they do have a bigger burocracy. Is that the attraction? George
Washington told us to stay away from Europe and so far everything we
copied from them we made us the losers. Your probably laughing at
old-fashioned American that loves his Country and hates to see it turn
into another France or Germany. Sometimes I think I am lucky to be 87
years old and not have to see the name of Washington to Moscow. Your
agency is doing everything it can.**

**If you only knew how you are going to ruin any kid with a pony, young
girl with a riding horse, hobby farms. They are all washed up. It is not
too bad for bigger farms; they have more equipment to do something. It
is still a horridness job. But that doesn't seem to bother you at all.**

I do think that I deserve a response to this letter. I have been around
a lot of years and seen a lot of things. But I have never witnessed
anything like what has happened in the last 10 years and what is about
to come.

**Lee Merrick**

**President**

Karem, Inc.