has anyone heard of the niebuhr process? let me tell you a fascinating story.hen i got to interior, if a state director, someone in denver sent us a document, on average, it took us 199 days to deliver that document across the street to the federal registrar. now right now, we are averaging about 32 days. how did that happen? we didn't change a single environmental standard, but we said, why does it take 199 days? and do you know what everyone, they didn't want to ask the question. they said we really don't know. and i said no, show me how this process got set up. and they said well, we really don't know. so i have kind of pieced it together. let me tell you how it got set up. up until the 1990s, a state director from blm could just send the document to the federal registrar anytime they wanted. that worked for a while. and then one day the chief of staff, that is a very important person if you ask the chief of staff. [ laughter ] >> so the chief of staff went to his nice office, actually it's right next to my office, and he went in and sat down and i'm sure he