LEO BYFORD
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TULSA, OKLAHOMA 74135
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RE: LETTER Dated December 2, 2009
Letter received December 23, 2009


Senator Inhofe:

I appreciate you taking the time to respond to another letter and another formal complaint that I sent to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA Lisa Jackson) and the office of the Inspector General and Inspector General for the EPA and with a copy to the President of the United States, along with copies to many others. As I have stated in this complaint and letter, that I have filed, as well as several other formal complaints filed before, it seems that there is no one in Washington or any state that cares about the environment or cares about the economy or creating jobs or small business. The response letters that I have received, not only from the President or the Whitehouse Staff, many others all saying the same response, “We appreciate your interest and your time for providing us information and we will look into the situation or we will make a note of this in our head or we will monitor the situation, keep us updated”. What an answer for anyone to give if they really had any type of concern, cared about this Nation, or cared about the federal laws and especially the President of the United States saying the same. What this does tell me, that this is politics, as usual, and who does not care about people, taxpayers or this nation, and anyone that has solutions and interest in protecting and growing this Nation, responses like this mean, leave us (Washington) alone, because WE and the Good Olde Boys have everything under control. If they have everything under control, they must not be reading letters and/or complaints like mine, the newspapers or other reports and they reside in another world, because if they did care, we would not have a Nation of unemployment at ten percent and growing and taxpayer money going to companies that continue to line their pockets, with special connections to Washington and cannot follow federal laws, including government agencies.

You mention in your letter that you do not always have time to listen or have the opportunity to listen to everyone’s ideas, concerns, and problems, even though you return to the state almost every weekend. Senator Inhofe, what does it take to gain that (YOUR) attention, when you have residents, families and children and tax payers that are in areas like Tar Creek, where hazardous materials are being discharge 24 hours a day 7 days a week and you have the EPA and the President of the United States violating Federal Laws and spending billions of taxpayers dollars on superfund sites like this with the same results after decades of work, just when do you have time? I do realize why people need to be removed from this site, but it still does not stop the hazardous discharges or prevent subsidence (cave-ins) or justified open end contracts for the Good Olde Boys to work that does not follow federal laws or protect the downstream areas from hazardous waste contamination. Senator Inhofe, how would you feel if you were told that here is a volute buyout, your water and electric is going to be stopped, and eminent domain will be used if you do not take the offer your are presented. I think you might would want to consider rereading the public meeting records/documents in Picher and what was the purpose of and why OU4 was approved by the EPA, because the buyout was not about the health of people in the Tar Creek superfund Site or Oklahoma residents or the residents within the Superfund Site, but about the EPA and the BOYS having another 25 plus years of receiving taxpayer money for work that does not follow federal laws, and then at the end of the next 25 plus years we (EPA) will decide on what to do next.

Actions like this stated above, does not justify why Washington does not want to create jobs or protect our environment, when you have solutions already designed that will do just what this State, Superfund Sites and federal programs need and mandated by Congress and can be applied through out the nation. Want a building block, all you have to do is look in your backyard and you will find people and companies like me and people asking for elected officials to support the small business and especially the SDVOSB, and yet when we sent letters or file formal complaints we get response letters stating “We will make a note of this in our HEAD”. Want to set a standard and transparency for the Nation, don’t just monitor the situation as you stated, but do something about it. Want to show the Nation what Oklahoma has to offer or the small business or the Service Disabled Veteran Small Business (SDVOSB) has to offer, do what you said several years ago, when I presented to you the first truly permanent solution for the Superfund Program and received an Innovator Award and several nominations for this process/product at MIT for this process. Want hundreds of jobs to be created and improve our environment and economy at the same time, let this SDVOSB, with you leading and the State of Oklahoma give Washington a lesson about innovation and put Oklahoma as the Leader of innovation and economy recovery. If President Obama and Washington can GIVE billions of taxpayer dollars to companies that continue to abuse and violate federal laws, companies that cannot follow stimulus guidelines, companies that could care less about jobs or the environment and all they care about is the MONEY, WHY do we not show them what a company and a state can do, that does care about the environment and jobs, especially shovel ready jobs? Why do we not show the country what the Service Disabled Veteran Small Business (SDVOSB) is really about and what we can do? I realize that many in this country and many in Washington do not care about Veterans and especially the Disabled Veterans (EPA Region 6 has proved this many times over), but let us do what we do best, protect this nation, create jobs, and move this Nation forward. I can assure you that we can do better than the experts in Washington.

Senator Inhofe, I am curious as to how my sharing my letters and formal complaints, with you, is shared with Congress and in turn the nation, as you stated in your response letter. I am also curious why you will continue to monitor the situation I outlined in my letter, when I have sent other copies and letters/complaints to you about these same issues. I would think that instead of monitoring the situation, you would want to stop the continues hazardous waste discharges, create hundreds of jobs for Oklahoma, support correcting taxpayer abuse, correcting the uncontrolled waste of taxpayer dollars, support the Disabled Veterans and their businesses, correcting issues of the stimulus package, that is currently in progress, correct violations of federal laws and demonstrate to the President and the Nation that we (including you) can do something about the environment, taxpayer abuse, health issues and put this nation back on the road to recovery. One other thing I can assure you nobody wants my opinion about Global Warming, because Global Warming Issue is not about saving this planet.


SEMPER FI



LEO BYFORD
OWNER/CEO
Environmental Toxins Solutions Inc. (ETSI)
A SDVOSB
Patent Owner and Holder

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