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Office of Inspector General

Notification: Gold King Mine Release (2nd notification)

Project #OPE-FY15-0059, November 4, 2015.

The purpose of this memorandum is to notify you of additional issues we plan to review in response to a second congressional request, and additional matters learned since our work began.

This is the 2nd notification of this project, the initial notification is also available.

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