Mr. Rosenzweig, You are advancing the thesis "the GAC has never interfered with anything is categorically wrong". Personally, I expect every AC and SO to participate in some aspects of policy development and implementation. Why you view the involvement of the GAC in policy development and implementation as interference does not interest me. However, in support of your thesis you pointed to the GAC's issuance of an objection to the DCA Trust application. Ignoring some IRP, the process and outcome of which is of no interest to me, and whether anyone projects their idea of "fairness" into the Board's action on this, or any other application, just what must public bodies do when a private party asserts a speculative claim on an aggregate of public bodies? This isn't a trick question or somthing that requires a great deal of intelligence -- what did the GAC fail to do -- in your view -- prior to arriving at a view on the merits of the DCA Trust applicaiton for the string "africa"? Your claim is something improper occured, exactly what was it? Eric Brunner-Williams Eugene, Oregon