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So splitting it up is something that makes sense. >> you did that because you feared there was a built-in conflict of interest between these two parts of the minerals management service? >> we had been working on this effort a long time. it started last year with new ethics guidelines, ethics reforms with elimination of royalty and kind programs and a whole host of reforms under way. this reform is one that was in the works before this incident happened, this incident from our point of view made it necessary to expedite what we were planning on doing. >> "the washington post" had a story in ea...