diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vedit/controller/BaseEditController.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vedit/controller/BaseEditController.java
index 9f1cc9c65..01b707451 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vedit/controller/BaseEditController.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vedit/controller/BaseEditController.java
@@ -155,26 +155,6 @@ public class BaseEditController extends VitroHttpServlet {
         }
     }
     
-    protected OntModel getOntModel( HttpServletRequest request, ServletContext ctx ) {
-
-    	// TODO: JB - This method gets the UNION FULL model from the session, if there is one, 
-    	// TODO and the BASE_TBOX model otherwise.
-    	OntModel ontModel = null;
-    	try {
-    		ontModel = ModelAccess.on(request.getSession()).getJenaOntModel();
-    	} catch (Exception e) {
-    	    // ignoring any problems here - we're not really expecting
-    	    // this attribute to be populated anyway
-    	}
-    	
-    	if ( ontModel == null ) {
-            ontModel = ModelAccess.on(ctx).getOntModel(ModelID.BASE_TBOX);
-    	}
-    	
-    	return ontModel;
-    	
-    }
-    
     protected WebappDaoFactory getWebappDaoFactory() {
     	return ModelAccess.on(getServletContext()).getBaseWebappDaoFactory();
     }
diff --git a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/edit/RestrictionOperationController.java b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/edit/RestrictionOperationController.java
index 6a4efe107..3bdb0142b 100644
--- a/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/edit/RestrictionOperationController.java
+++ b/webapp/src/edu/cornell/mannlib/vitro/webapp/controller/edit/RestrictionOperationController.java
@@ -23,11 +23,14 @@ import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Model;
 import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.ModelFactory;
 import com.hp.hpl.jena.rdf.model.Resource;
 import com.hp.hpl.jena.shared.Lock;
+import com.hp.hpl.jena.vocabulary.DAML_OIL;
 
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vedit.beans.EditProcessObject;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vedit.controller.BaseEditController;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.auth.permissions.SimplePermission;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.controller.VitroRequest;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.ModelAccess;
+import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.ModelAccess.ModelID;
 import edu.cornell.mannlib.vitro.webapp.dao.jena.event.EditEvent;
 
 public class RestrictionOperationController extends BaseEditController {
@@ -44,7 +47,8 @@ public class RestrictionOperationController extends BaseEditController {
 		
 	    try {
 	    	
-	    	OntModel ontModel = getOntModel(request, getServletContext());
+	    	OntModel ontModel = ModelAccess.on(
+	    	        getServletContext()).getOntModel(ModelID.BASE_TBOX);
 		    
             HashMap epoHash = null;
             EditProcessObject epo = null;