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Spring '06 Review: BORever Mob  Boondoggle Files 


  TRYING TO TURN LAKE BERRYESSA RECREATION INTO SOMETHING IT’S NOT

In the lull before the storm and until the Record Of Decision is released by the BOR I thought I would take a few minutes of your time to brief you on some salient points of the Final Environmental Impact Statement. These points need major explanation and discussion by the BOR’s “Think Tank” of select professionals and contractors who helped push the FEIS to what it is today.

So let’s take a few of those items found in the Summary, Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 and especially the Preferred Alternative B crafted by BOR professional staff and contractors who are former BOR employees and subjects of the National Park System. These minions have implanted their bureaucratic maneuvering and “two cents” worth of  government wisdom into a “Pie In The Sky” view of what Lake Berryessa could become. In there zeal they forgot to ask the “people and users” of Lake Berryessa what they wanted and what will work. Instead they faltered and plan to shop this scheme to a entrepreneur capitalist like Forever Resorts (who are running over 45 recreation facilities on federal lands and water) and build a so-called “Framework” that will elicit bids from perspective bidders on their schemes. Here are some of them:

1.Creating Major Houseboat Operations – FEIS page 44  - House-Boating – Provide rental houseboats similar in size and style to those at other traditional house-boating lakes in the western United States.
 
How interesting that all of sudden the BOR has now decided after all these 50 -years of operation to re-institute a rental house boat operation and include their operations at Markley Cove, Pleasure Cove Marina and Steele Park This was not found in the early 2003 DEIS and was not discussed in Dornbusch Economic Feasibility Study.

To refresh some of your memories Commercial House Boat were operated at Markley Cove for five years and the operators decided it was a losing process. John and Linda Frazier long time operators of Markley Cove will attest to the fact that Lake Berryessa is not suitable for year round house boating operations.

Next two highly suspect individuals of the BOR who were close to the Pleasure Cove bidding process have been the main impetus of moving this idea forward. Mike Pretronvich, Recreation Specialist at Folsom CCAO-BOR office and Bruce Wadlington a consultant and former Bureau of Reclamation management employee at Folsom and Sacramento Mid Pacific were key in the input of the house boat concepts into the FEIS. In late November 2004 they reported to Mike Finnegan that they had traveled to 16 major houseboat operations in the western United States and found them to be an attractive process to install at Lake Berryessa. These trips will most likely come under the Federal investigation process as they are linked to later exploits in setting up the Pleasure Cove Marina sham bid process.
  
In the sham bid process for Pleasure Cove Marina the Forever Resorts of Scottsdale, Arizona was awarded the new replacement contract on June 1, 2005 for 30-months. (This was illegal as BOR rules allow only 24-month interim contracts). One of the major sticking points of that contract was to allow Forever Resorts to develop major house boat operations at Pleasure Cove and they gave them specifically the right to 50 - Commercial House Boat permits and 50 – Private house boats permits.  Lake Berryessa Operations Policy No. 1 allows 75 Commercial and 75 Private house boats all total on the Lake. At the time of this “Fandango” decision was made there were 33 private house boat permits already on the Lake and most of them were at Markley Cove. (Markley Cove has the extended docks and in - place marine pumping features and support elements to operate the process cleanly.

So next comes along the interlopers from Arizona and they bring in two 55’ houseboats on June 2, 2005 one day after the contract was signed for the Pleasure Cove Marina. Even without any adequate dockage to support their proposed operations. Matter of fact from June 1, 2005 till this date the houseboats at Pleasure Cove have never left the marina. (Never Rented)  Staff from the Forever Resorts has been living on those houseboats. At $5000 a week rental fee,  this is Hilton Hotel prices and exclusive use lodging.

In many ways Forever Resorts have reneged on their contract with over 21 points of the contract violated already. First off the docking facilities are not available to accommodate houseboats at Pleasure Cove. They also will not be available at Steele Park in the new FEIS idea and scam to put houseboats there.

Forever Resorts Company has major experience in houseboat operations and actually builds it own boats in Missouri. Beside the docking features discussed above, they lacked marine pumping capability at Pleasure Cove and limited fuel capacity at that Resort. Forever Resorts was required to place 10 docks 40’ or more in length by September 1, 2005 but that never happened. Also an additional 80 docks were to be installed by September 1, 2005.

To exacerbate the problem Forever Resorts got caught up in a Snafu with the Regional Water Quality Control Board in Sacramento when it tried to install a “jerry-rigged” contraption on a floating water barge for pumping marine waste into a public restroom clean out trap. It was a terrible idea, totally against the law and the Water Quality Board shut that down quickly. This was done without County of Napa permits and the concurrence of the RWQB.

The houseboat idea postulated by BOR Petronvich and consultant Wadlington are get rich schemes. The marinas at the six resorts do not have the support features to operate a major houseboat process on Lake Berryessa. The turning radius of 50’ houseboats at fuel docks and docking slips just isn’t there to accommodate 150 houseboats. (There is no marine fuel process at Putah Creek at present) One wag said that this allows a houseboat to every four acres on the lake.There is so much wrong with this process I could go on for hours about it and elaborate on all the weakness. At the Winters, California meeting the comments of the public echoed my sentiments.
 
2.Camping and RV Centers – There is this subtle idea that this Lake should turn into a process to accommodate short-term RV’s and develop the Lake into something that it’s NOT. The BOR ideas on this process falls short and in their Alternative B they disguise what one of these campgrounds should look like and what type of amenities there should be present at one of these RV parks. There ideas border on developing campgrounds much like a KOA Camping facilities found all over the United States. These would be “Three and Four Star” rated at Lake Berryessa Marina to pull in the rich peoples Executive Type motor homes exceeding 35’ and the cost of $150,000 each for over the road vehicle with all the self-contained accommodations. 
When I say disguise, can you tell me what any of these facilities will or would even look like? You have to go to Alternative C on page 54 and begin to see how the BOR would even want one of these places laid out. Because of the stealth measure they want you to maybe disregard this matter in Alternative C and say (Same as Alternative B).  Never once in 264 page document can you find a schematic or graphic to explain their ideas.
There is still more stealth when they don’t discuss how much this will cost and then imply that after they kick out those dastardly trailers they will reoccupy the same places with RV parking spots. What the difference here between a long-term trailer and a short-term RV trailers.

I have been going to Lake Berryessa for over 25 years and have watched the business end of the Lake closely. I was there last weekend at my resort,  Steele Park and there was not one mobile home RV occupying the 60 RV Rental spaces. There is an old saying “build it and they will come” Well, I challenge that saying because the Lake after all these years has not fully been year round supported by the RV motor home people. They are good people don’t get me wrong but you need a mix of all types to support that Lake and some decent weather.
 
In my comments to the BOR I related tell the people what these places will look like. What are the standards and expectations? As far as I am concerned this is all speculation. The BOR staff has said this is only a framework plan. “We do not know what the bidders will come back to us with and tell us what will work and what they can make money on”.  Most amazing the faulty Dornbusch Study never even ball-parked out the cost of a RV park conversion of long term trailer sites into short term RV sites. It’s more a less like placing the “cart before the horse”. My crystal ball tells me that this is “big bucks” especially on the environmental side and the deforestation of hillsides and areas around existing long-term trailers will be an environmental disaster.

3.Rustic Flavor and Thematic Designs – This is a construction cost inflation term and will drive the cost of these facilities 30% and upward. With over 125 new structures to be built there is hidden in these terms an unknown cost to design this into something like you would find at Yosemite or Yellowstone National Parks.  The BOR needs to get real and quit living in the “Disneyland” process. This Lake Berryessa recreation started in the late 50’s and that hardly can be declared as “Rustic”. After the BOR gets done removing the entire concessionaire and long-term trailer sites this place will look like something like West Virginia coal mine scarred surfaces and an eminent disaster impending.

4.Café Incorporating Architectural Theme (easy dinning)   - I don’t know about you, but I really don’t care what a place looks like. Eating at a “Goofy Seven” or Pizza Hut styled restaurants doesn’t make sense at a resort lake. This is another cost inflator that the BOR has dreamed up as a “puff piece” to entice you to really like their Alternative-B.  Can you see a Mc Donald’s styled café at this Lake?

5.Lodging Centers – I am sure all of you have been to one of our National Parks and seen what a Federal-lodging center that is Rustic Built and Thematic like the Awanhee Hotel at Yosemite NP. Lets get real BOR you could roll a bowling ball on any road in any resorts on a January day and never hit a person. BOR’s numbers they furnished to the Dorbusch team were ridiculous for a lodging center hotel. They pegged the Capital Cost of a lodging center hotel at $1,199, 000. I challenged the BOR that they “Cooked the Books” on this cost input to purposely drive the cost. Page 49 of Dorbusch. They related to how they were told by BOR to put in these numbers. Anyway lets just think about what a 40-room hotel would really cost. First off the BOR wants these lodging centers to look like something that is out of the Sierra Club playbooks or want you would see Youell Gibbons walking out of with a Paul Bunyan double headed axe over the shoulder.
  
In order to build a hotel this large even if a two story you would need a footprint 8,400 square feet to set the foundation. So just where is this land available at Putah Creek and Steele Park Resorts?  Next lets get real, you need setbacks and parking lots to hold the potential occupants and staff that work in one of these places. The BOR really shined on this one with their “snake oil” salesmanship verbiage. For instance at Putah Creek Resort  (which by the way the land inside the present resort does not meet BOR mean sea level line minimums requirements in Alternative C there would be no building allowed) you could not build. Here is what they said about a Lodge at Putah Creek on page 50 of the FEIS.  “Putah Creek could become a major contemporary lodging area on Lake Berryessa. Putah Creek would feature a contemporary hotel/lodging type development. It would be designed to incorporate a theme in keeping with the cultural and historical venue. Lodging facilities would be equivalent to a “Two Star Rating” in the Mobil Travel Guide. The hotel/lodge would incorporate some of the amenities and facilities that would support business meetings, or retreats during shoulder and off seasons. In the busy season, family groups or others wishing some private areas for socializing could lease such facilities. This resort is 35 miles from Nowhere Ville!! It cracks me up to say you plan to have a “Two Star” rated facility and in walks a guy in a Speedo and shower clogs for a jaunt to the bar. Putah Creek resort is probably the oldest resort on the Lake. It has been there a long time.  You need a large flat open space and view area to put up a facility of this size.

This Indian Tribe interloping takes me back to lots of peoples concern over the BOR dalliance with the Indian Guys from Williams, CA unknown tribe. They wanted to plant some weeds in the lake and make demonstration projects at the lake for Indian Basket Weaving. That lead to speculation on a lot of peoples part that the Indians were trying to get a foot into the door. (Or some weeds in the Lake).  Had the BOR allowed this dalliance to occur we could have seen the first Indian Casino in Napa County.  Or as Supervisor Diane Dillion might say, “Not in my District Indian Joe”. But lots of people really thought the BOR would cut a deal for a Casino at this location. Always remember this factor when you discuss the BOR and Department of Interior. The DOI track record with the Indian Tribes has not been a very melodious process and Federal Judges have stuck it to Secretary Norton time and time again over Indian matters. I have sat a many BOR meetings over the past six years and the subject of an Indian Casino always comes up.
 
Who is going to design these lodges, pay the architectural fees and permit fees for Title 24 and Title 25 fees to Napa County government? The BOR personnel should be indicted for the false and misleading information they implanted into the Dornbusch Study.

Some numbers just for the foundation and grading and “stub ins” of utilities alone would cost close to $890,000 and the cost will be higher for the Lake Berryessa price and labor pool cost. Lastly, to furnish a 40-room hotel/lodging center properly you will not even begin to set up the interior furnishings and the equipment. The cost will exceed over $2,000,000. So a hotel/lodging center that the government said could be built for $1,199,000 most like may exceed over $5,000,000 for each structure.

There is more involved in this process and the necessary fire protection features, construction and fire sprinklers and safety factoring must be provided and it is not cheap. Also, I just spent some ten January days at the lake this New Year 2006 and it was cold. To have an all year around facility you need to design it for Title 24 and be able to operate it in year around climates of low winter temperatures in the 20 degree range and extreme summer hot August summer day of 105 degrees plus temperatures. This is “big - bucks” folks. The BOR will not build these as they try to lure an entrepreneur bidder into their “Spider Web” traps. The “Return On Investment” (ROI) are highly questionable, how many beds do you have to fill year around to make this process profitable and work in the winter months? It is pure “poppy cock”.

6.Cottages of Thematic design – again the BOR said they could build these cottages - 28 for under $778,000 dollars. First off that’s not enough cabins and it was priced out for only three resorts. Their Dornbusch plan was made to deceive the eye and underwrite or “low-ball” the real cost of the process at Lake Berryessa. Hey are they planning on bringing in more trailers disguised as cabins? Manufactured cabins or are they trailers in disguise? One of the Annex 18 said the document would never say exactly how many cabins or structures will be built or even their size. Who are they trying to kid? The BOR won’t pay to have these cabins built and delivered to Lake Berryessa. This is another scam with the BOR hands in the pockets of the bidders.

7.New Water Ski Center – In the DEIS the BOR wanted to kick the Monticello Ski Club out of the lake and end it’s 35 years of service to the lake. This new idea is a $1,000,000 Ski Center is to be built at Steele Park. Sounds good, but lets see how much the present Willy’s Ski School is used by skier’s year around. Only during the peak season do you ever find ski instructions underway. I defy anyone to tell me they will be taking water ski instructions from October 15 – April 15 on Lake Berryessa. It’s too damn cold in the water!  Who is going to put up the money for this “folly”?
8.Full Service Restaurants (year around) Two Star Rated by Mobil Tour Guide
This shows up in the FEIS five times and the features that move these items are the BOR sell point is “year around use”. Let’s get real and be honest BOR you don’t have a clue to reality. There is only one operating restaurant at Lake Berryessa and that is marginal at Steele Park. A lot of has to do with feasibility and usage. Only during the months of June to Labor Day does the one restaurant at Steele Park open. Markley Cove has no food establishment. Any other restaurants are non-existent. The other resorts do have scaled down cafes for capability to have a sit down snack meal like Steele Park. So where did this business model idea come from for a year-around operating restaurant concept. This is pure “smoke and mirrors” stuff and basic bull crap what they are pushing out here. Maybe another “spider web” trap to lure some bidder into the process. You need to put people into the seats and fill tables with food that is presentable and affordable and not Pizza or “junk food”.

9.Concessionaire Run Boat Launch Ramp – Capell Cove BOR Free Ramp
This launch ramp was built in the 1980’s out of a State Grant from Cal Boating and Waterways. The federal government did not put any money into the process. It was poorly designed and later found to be on a hill landslide with a high degree of failure. The government (BOR) said it would cost over $1,000,000 to repair the slide. Some of you are familiar with the landslide that occurred this year in Wooden Valley Road when a massive hillside failed and closed one of the main accesses to Lake Berryessa – January 2, 2006. The B0R does not have the money to fix this process or the idea is now to shake it off to an unsuspecting bidder and have Spanish Flat Resort run the process. Of course it would no longer be a free launch.
In 2005, President Bush established a Presidential Executive Order directing the Department of Interior to establish fees and have a “pay as you go” funded system for the National Parks. (Which includes the BOR). All along this lunch ramp from terms of the grant was to be free to users for 10 years. That time window expired in 1991. The BOR administration said the fee would be waived because of a drought in the 80’s and never instituted a fee for use again. This is a terrible place and in disgusting condition. There is no running water. In February 2005 and January 2006 the water came up on the lake and flooded the parking lot and small single launch dock. People park indiscrimately on Berryessa – Knoxville Road with their pickup and boat trailer combinations. It is not supervised and BOR does not fully understand their liability if someone is ever killed or injured at that location. So here you have another hidden million-dollar deal and the BOR wants to shuffle and step this item off to a Concessionaire.

10.Overnight Centers/Offices  - This shows up in the FEIS three times in Alternative B. There is no description of what they are or size of each facility. Page 44 – Pleasure Cove. The “Camping Center” facility would serve as a hub for public operations for the area and be developed in an architectural style in keeping with the area’s theme. Page 47 Spanish Flat  - The Overnight Center would serve as a registration and business center for all operations and be positioned in such a manner that it serves as a division between camping and lodging. Page 48 – Lake Berryessa Marina Resort  - Overnight Center - nothing else for an explanation. Except LBM would be a “Three and Four” Star Ratings” in the Mobil Travel Guide. Now folks how big are they and what are they entailing and most important how much does each one of these structures cost. In hindsight the poorly developed Dornbusch Study never addressed this type of facility nor a cost.

11.Family Café Dinning facilities – One Star Rating there are only two of these facilities at present on the lake and one is at Steele Park and the other at Rancho Monticello. Both have outdoors seating and are well kept up. The other five resorts have limited food sevice. Putah Creek has a kitchen and operates sporadically during the peak season. Dining and food operations are not proposed at Markley Cove. Page 44, one is proposed at Pleasure Cove, Page 45, Fast Food operation at Steele Park, Page 46, Spanish Flat, Page 48 Family Café Style Dinning, (an economical restaurant and retail area). Yeah the going price for a cheeseburger and fries and coke is $8.50 at two resorts now. Rancho Monticello – Family dinning page 50.
Dornbusch talked about building restaurants for $603,000 and Snack Bars for $288,000. I think they must have been on some hallucinate type process when they came up with those numbers. Just the price of equipment and furnishings and operation items far exceeds the stated cost. This was not too well thought out and the business model of usage and operation peak windows is questionable. This is some more “smoke and mirrors” folks.

12.Youth/Elder Hostel with common shower/restroom/laundry  – to be built at Rancho Monticello – Page 50. Now this facility description is not found in any documents in BOR construction manual and there is no cost for this “Pie in the Sky” idea. This is just more “stick” on the part of the BOR to entice Senior Citizens into thinking this is going to be a freebie and would be the first such facility for the BOR anywhere of this nature. Dornbusch never mentioned this concept nor showed any cost relationship. Of course they only studied the three South shore resorts and never costed out the West Shore resorts. How much does this cost, how big is it and where would it be placed at Rancho?

13.RV parks with full hookups with Lake Vistas – Lake Berryessa Marina –Rancho Monticello – Pleasure Cove –Steele Park – Spanish Flat with Lake access. This one is the hardest for me to understand. Now let me see if you feel the same way about this. You take out the existing long-term trailers and convert their spaces back into RV type trailers. Doesn’t make much sense does it? I challenged the BOR on the subject of “trailers” According to the California Codes there are many different type of so called trailers on this Lake and the BOR by the way allowed them all to be where they are at present. This is an unprecedented move on people’s private property and can be considered a “taking” under federal guidelines.
Let me see if I get this right? I own two manufactured homes at Steele Park. I am a legal permitee of the government. I own the titles and have them both are licensed  with the State of California through HCD with current annual tags and fees paid. I am not a squatter. My trailer sites have been approved, inspected and master planned by Napa County (even though this is on federal land). My units all have approved utilities; sewage and they are approved by the BOR to service my facility. Both units met all code requirements of California Law. I pay $440 a month or $5280 annually for rental fee to use the concessionaires allotted land from the government. The government in Lake Berryessa web site says that after the ROD is released they may put a moratorium on the sale of trailers and if you decide to sell your units you must remove them from the government property. Very clever stuff!!!!

14.Lake Berryessa Marina would be a “Three and Four Star Resort” rated on The Mobil Travel Guide – I looked over the Mobil Travel Guide for four-star facility in California and there are only a few “four stars” found in Northern California. First off whoever concocted this scheme must have never been to a resort in the summer and visited the places to see what actually happens there. You cannot make these places into something the are NOT. This is some more bull crap that the BOR is pumping out to lure some perspective bidders into their “spider web”.

15.Lake Berryessa Marina would have drive-thru (pull-through) for large motor coaches would be available. Isn’t that Special! So now this resort will become a destination spot for the “rich and famous” and snobs who will have special exclusive use spots designed to pull their $150,000 plus motor homes and enjoy the view. Also why don’t they make the spots as long as Page 54 and separate them accordingly for free area space around the “exclusive motor home camping places with full services”. I don’t know about you but this is some more bull crap they have put out. In Page 48 FEIS “The RV facilities would be of he highest quality level for amentias offered at Lake Berryessa”. So just take out 275 long-term trailers and turn the place into a weekend RV camping spot. Isn’t that special??

16.Camp Berryessa (which was the former Boy Scouts of America campground) until the BOR severed the lease would be managed by Putah Creek Resort – So the BOR evicts the Boy Scouts in 2004 then they realize that it is going to cost millions of dollars to develop Camp Berryessa into a major makeover (dreamscape) that the BOR would like to see materialize. As far as I know Camp Berryessa is federal land outside the boundaries of resorts draw lines. So here is the question where is the planning, design and money going to come from to pay for this folly? Millions or more I ask! Basically there is no infrastructure there now and how do they plan to have a user cost campground without putting some serious money up from BOR budgets. Do they think a bidder would be so naïve to walk into that trap of setting up a campground? What would the bidders return on investment be and who would fall for that stupidity?
17.Ranch Monticello would be designed as a “Two Star Rated on the Mobil Travel guide” and have Boat Valet Call Ahead Service – This brings me right back to resort profiles and how people dress and act at a resort. This is not a “Two Star” concept. The people who operate Rancho have done a wonderful job in cleaning up the resort. They have all the right intentions on staying at Lake Berryessa and have spoken out on issues in opposition to the BOR philopshies.
The boat valet call ahead service would be a first in BOR use in the United States. Who figured this one out? What about the boat storage features and the liability to the operator moving the call ahead boats into slips for service. To further debunk this idea there would be limited overnight docking and no long term slips available. This does not make sense like a lot of scams the BOR is throwing out on the FEIS. Ref: Page 50 FEIS.
18.Canoe and Kayak launch ramps – locations and types are unknown. This was a push from Alternative D and a Carol Kunze proposal of the Sierra Club. Since we don’t know where these spots will be designated and how much they will cost it remains a mystery. There are plenty of spots on the Lake where you can launch a canoe any day of the week, so what is the trade off all about here? Is it to silence the Greens and Environmentalist?
19.New Government Operations-The FEIS under Government Operations for Alternative B puts out these ideas:
Boat In Camping
Establish Shoreline Overnight Mooring Locations
Houseboat accommodations for overnight on board camping
Anchoring of houseboats off shore.
Establish the Water Recreation Opportunity Spectrum (WROS) and impose 5 mph zones around a large portion of the lake.
Develop informal partnerships to build trails around the lake.
Rehabilitate shorelines in the vicinity of resorts. (Why just near resorts)?

I think this is some very dangerous stuff they are proposing to the environment, the BOR does not maintain the shoreline at present anyway and has no equipment to do recovery or remediation repair work to shoreline. So we have another item here to placate the houseboat operations that were designed to allow Forever Resorts to be financially stabilized in the future.

20.Exclusive Use Term – The FEIS went to great labor in inputting this term “exclusive use” into the document 38 times. In the DEIS it was use generically only 17 times. Ref; PDF Search Tool.
The BOR worked from April 4, 2005 until release of the FEIS modify the document and change the terms. And indeed they connived up another term in companion to this subject called “long-term exclusive use trailers” and planted the “poison pill” into the FEIS to establish their policy into the document. This ‘excusive use” term did not have position with the BOR thinking until they modified the BOR Concession Management policy LND 04-01. On April 29, 2002 the BOR in stealth superseded the base LND 04-01 document that was previously released on 4/3/98. My basic question to BOR was when did this document go out for review and comment. Investigation of the 2002 Federal Register shows no entries on this subject.  My question to several of the current resort operators was: Why did you not challenge this document and call for a comment and hearing on the process?  Beside the egregious term “exclusive use the concessionaires were harmed by terms the BOR dropped into this superseded document. I did a side-by-side review of this document and the term “exclusive use” did not appear in the 1998 version of the document. So what does this mean, first the “exclusive use” term is found only in LND 04-01 and that is a policy of the BOR. That means it is NOT a Federal Law, Act or Regulation, or Public Law. This is some more bull crap they cooked up inside of BOR. It does not appear in National Parks and Department of Interior policies. It is a major question about the constitutionality of this phrase in a government document. What gives the BOR the power to establish the “exclusive use” term? Since most of the trailers and vacation homes were in place prior to April 29, 2002 how does the new superseded policy affected and have standing under the “grandfathering” terms.
 
SUMAMRY
Here are some points to absorb and need clarification. The BOR ‘Roll Outs” and  they failed to give answers to simple questions that begged common sense approaches. During the entire “Roll Out “ process I never saw anytime that the BOR’s showed it’s intent to develop compromise positions and come to the table with answers. There were way too many unanswered questions. Lastly, how much do all those items in 1-20 above cost and when will the BOR tell taxpayers the cost? My position is I won’t buy any the idea until I know how much it will cost? Is this really change for changes sakes?

HENRY (HANK ) A. HOWARD, Captain, C.W.Posse
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