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Plaintiffs' Request for Immediate Response Re Study Request

AFFIDAVIT OF ALAN L. SCHNEIDER

Alan L. Schneider, OSB No. 68147
1437 SW Columbia Street, Suite 200
Portland, Oregon 97201
Telephone: (503) 274-8444
Facsimile: (503) 274-8445

Paula A. Barran, OSB No. 80397
BARRAN LIEBMAN LLP
E-mail: pbarran@barran.com
520 SW Yamhill Street, Suite 600
Portland, Oregon 97204-1383
Telephone: (503) 228-0500
Facsimile: (503) 274- 1212

Attorneys for Defendant

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE DISTRICT OF OREGON

ROBSON BONNICHSEN, et al.,
Plaintiffs,

v.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY, et al.,
Defendants.

CV No. 96-1481 JE

AFFIDAVIT OF ALAN L. SCHNEIDER

I, Alan L. Schneider , being first duly sworn, do depose and state as follows:

1. I am one of the attorneys representing the plaintiff scientists in the above-captioned matter.

2. Attached hereto as Exhibit A is a true copy of a document that I received on April 2, 1999 from Rebecca B. Ransom, Division Counsel, Northwestern Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request dated November 24, 1998. The document is entitled Review: "Department of Interior Approach to Documentation, Analysis, Interpretation, and Disposition of Human Remains Inadvertently Discovered at Columbia Park, Kennewick, WA" (Draft Document of 20 October 1998) and indicates that it was prepared by Clark Spencer Larsen.

3. According to defendants' Fifth Quarterly Status Report, Clark Spencer Larsen in one of two experts retained by defendants to review defendants' study protocol.

DATED this 2nd day of August, 1999.

[Signed]
Alan L. Schneider

SUBSCRIBED and SWORN to before me this 2nd day of August, 1999.
[Signed]
Robert P. Johnson
Notary Public for Oregon
My Commission Expires: 08/07/99

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