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Dissenting Opinion of Member Carol Waller Pope:

      I respectfully dissent from my colleagues' conclusion that extraordinary circumstances warrant interlocutory review of the exceptions in this case. The majority acknowledges that the Authority recently modified its standard for granting interlocutory review in United States Dep't of the Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Wapato Irrigation Project, Wapato, Wash., 55 FLRA 1230, 1232 (2000) (Dep't of the Interior). The majority also acknowledges that, under the modified standard, interlocutory review "should only be undertaken" when: (1) the arguments challenging an award in fact present a plausible jurisdictional defect; and (2) the resolution of the exception will advance the ulti