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Brad—I’m trying to figure out what protocol was mistakenly used when Dan said this a week or so ago, can you tell me? thanks— "It recently has become clear that our drinking water program staff made a mistake while working with the City of Flint. Simply stated, staff employed a federal protocol they believed was appropriate, and it was not. The water testing steps followed would have been correct for a city less than 50,000 people, but not for a city of nearly 100,000.” Todd Spangler Washington correspondent Detroit Free Press 703-854-8947 xxxEND_PAGE:deq14_b0783_2627_2627_1