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The EPA is trying to cheat Navajo Indians by getting them to sign away their rights to future claims from the agency’s Gold King Mine disaster, tribal officials charged Wednesday, adding more to the administration’s public relations problems over the spill that threatens critical Southwest waterways. EPA officials were going door-to-door asking Navajo, some of whom don’t speak English as their primary language, to sign a form that offers to pay damages incurred so far from the spill, but waiving the right to come back and ask for more if their costs escalate or if they discover bigger problems, ......

Thursday, July 31, 2003 It's Now U.S. 491, Not U.S. 666 By Leslie Linthicum Journal Staff Writer     "The devil's out of here," said Transportation Secretary Rhonda Faught, "and we say goodbye and good riddance."     The Devil's Highway. Satan's Highway. The Highway to Hell.     In a ceremony here Wednesday, the 190-mile highway that stretches into New Mexico, Colorado and Utah was officially renamed U.S. 491 because of decades of complaints that its satanic 666 connotations spooked the people who live along and drive on the highway and repelled tourists who might otherwise take a trip through Navajo country....