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August 4: Charter flight from Denver to Durango, Colorado. EPA says Pruitt's flight was delayed and he would have missed a meeting on the Gold King Mine. The governer's office offered a seat on his plane but there was only one seat available. Cost: $5,719

August 9: Flew on the North Dakota governor's plane. Cost (as an in-kind contribution): $2,144

Public Affairs Officer Liz Bowman tweeted Wednesday that the administrators flies commercial and that these are the only non-commercial flights he has taken.

#EPA Administrator flies commercial. He has only taken one charter flight, three government flights.

— Liz Bowman (@LizBowmanEPA) September 27, 2017

The EPA Inspector General began an audit of Pruitt's travel after reports that he spent his first months in office frequently traveling home to Oklahoma. Those trips were based on documents released that covered his travel expenses between March and May of this year. The organization that obtained them, the Environmental Integrity Project, says more recent documents have not been released.

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