United States Representative Vicky Hartzler vows to fight for Lake Ozark residents

Intro:	Homeowners brought passionate pleas to a Central Missouri U.S. Representative over uncertainty of Lake of the Ozark property ownership.
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Description: "Once I had a little gal, we lived outside of town. We only had a one room shack and it was falling down. But, the land was all our own, it's where my son was born. Let's hurry up and win this war, it's time to plant my corn... and that says it all.

Camdenton Resident Doug Dragert is one of the many residents whose shoreline land is now being called federal land by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or "FERC."

He, like many other residents, is proud to own land and is willing to fight for it.

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Description: "FERC is not going to tell me to get out of my house. FERC is not going to tell me that they are going to tear my house down and take my property, nor are they going to tell my neighbor."

U.S. Representative Vicky Hartzler vowed support lake residents, like Dragert, to make legislation to stop the reposession of what FERC says is their federal land.

From the Lake of the Ozarks, I'm Ashley Massow.

Intro:	Homeowners brought passionate pleas to a Central Missouri U.S. Representative to save their Lake of the Ozarks homes.
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Description: "I'm so glad you came out here... thank you for coming..." ((clapping))

Lake Ozark residents thanked U.S. Represenative Hartzler for hearing their emotional pleas of property ownership uncertainty. More than one thousand two hundred of their lake front properties are being labeled as federal property by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC.

In reaction, Represenative Hartzler introduced what she calls the "Landowner Protection Act of 2011." The bill would ammend the Federal Power Act, prohibiting FERC from taking actions to evict residents.

She says...

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Description: "I think it is shocking. I think it is outrageous, and I think it needs to be stopped... and I am going to do everything I can to do that." ((clapping))

From the Lake of the Ozarks, I'm Ashley Massow.

Intro:	Lake of the Ozarks residents made passionate please to a Central Missouri U.S. Represenative after learning their life investment on the shore may be federal property.
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Wrap: Residents of the Lake of the Ozarks say they dreamed of their home on the shore, but the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has labeled the land of one thousand two hundred Lake of the Ozark homes as federal land.

Camdenton resident Betty Beal says she spent her life savings on her residence near the shore.

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Description: "We're retired school teachers, we moved down from Blue Springs... and we were gonna live here forever."

Beal says homes are already being lost to banks, as realators can't sell the land of questionable ownership.

Beal recalls one neighbor who urgently moved out to take care of her sick granddaughter. The neighbor lost her life savings to the bank because her condo on the land wouldn't sell.

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Description: "That's real, and not just taking this building... it took her home - and it's all becuase of this. She lost her home and her life savings. It's just too bad."

From the Lake of the Ozarks, I'm Ashley Massow.