The IRS says it was aware of the disparity in the inventory backlog at the two processing sites but neither site was in a position to accept inventory from the other until late fiscal year 2011.

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The first step in reducing a position is to take a full inventory.

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This is enormous, says Andrew Lipow, a Houston oil trading consultant, noting that such a position would be equal to one-sixth of the entire U.S. crude inventory of 300 million barrels.

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As the United States has no idea how many SS-18 missiles the Russians actually have in their inventory, even the monitored destruction of all "declared" heavy ICBMs may leave Moscow in a position to utilize these silos in the future to launch SS-18s.

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