Hey Jeff, You say Heresay, but I say: comments of this nature were posted on the website a while back - as review comments on the original ENVIRON modeling literature review. The url is: http://capita.wustl.edu/OTAG/Reports/TechDiscussion/ENVIRONComm.html (see comments #4 and5). If you're suggesting that just the citation (pers com), be dropped, that's fine. If you're suggesting the whole sentence de deleted, I disagree (and think the points raised in the cited review comments provide sufficient justification).