A waste excavation plan must be approved in advance of any excavation, and that includes even the city of Alamogordo.

New Mexico Environment Department spokesman Jim Winchester, denying two companies the ability to excavate part of an old city landfill to search for Atari "E.T. The Extraterrestrial" game cartridges purportedly buried there in the 1980s. "E.T." is considered one of the worst video games ever made.