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County's FOIA request yields documents

By The Associated Press

Story Created: Aug 4, 2008 at 6:58 PM MST

Story Updated: Aug 4, 2008 at 6:58 PM MST

HELENA - Missoula County officials are receiving documents they requested under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

Those documents relate to easements for Plum Creek Timber Co. use of U.S. Forest Service roads. Missoula County officials say the easements restrict the purposes for which Plum Creek can use those roads. The company disagrees and is joined in that position by Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey, who oversees the Forest Service.

A deputy attorney for Missoula County filed the Freedom of Information Act request in June. The first documents obtained in response are on the county's Web site, and the attorney says he expects more.

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