diff --git a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/providers/RodLocusView.java b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/providers/RodLocusView.java
index c38b09334..54f8b44ed 100644
--- a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/providers/RodLocusView.java
+++ b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/providers/RodLocusView.java
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ public class RodLocusView extends LocusView implements ReferenceOrderedView {
             // grab the ROD iterator from the data source, and compute the first location in this shard, forwarding
             // the iterator to immediately before it, so that it can be added to the merging iterator primed for
             // next() to return the first real ROD in this shard
-            LocationAwareSeekableRODIterator it = dataSource.seek(provider.getShard());
+            LocationAwareSeekableRODIterator it = dataSource.seek(provider.getLocus());
             it.seekForward(genomeLocParser.createGenomeLoc(loc.getContig(), loc.getStart()-1));
 
             states.add(new ReferenceOrderedDataState(dataSource,it));            
diff --git a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/rmd/ReferenceOrderedDataSource.java b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/rmd/ReferenceOrderedDataSource.java
index 18679dd77..5b4be2fc6 100644
--- a/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/rmd/ReferenceOrderedDataSource.java
+++ b/public/java/src/org/broadinstitute/sting/gatk/datasources/rmd/ReferenceOrderedDataSource.java
@@ -26,7 +26,6 @@ package org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.datasources.rmd;
 
 import net.sf.samtools.SAMSequenceDictionary;
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.commandline.Tags;
-import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.datasources.reads.Shard;
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.refdata.SeekableRODIterator;
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.refdata.tracks.RMDTrack;
 import org.broadinstitute.sting.gatk.refdata.tracks.RMDTrackBuilder;
@@ -154,16 +153,6 @@ public class ReferenceOrderedDataSource {
         return (name.equals(fileDescriptor.getName()) && (type.getClass().isAssignableFrom(getType().getClass())));
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Seek to the specified position and return an iterator through the data.
-     * @param shard Shard that points to the selected position.
-     * @return Iterator through the data.
-     */
-    public LocationAwareSeekableRODIterator seek( Shard shard ) {
-        DataStreamSegment dataStreamSegment = shard.getGenomeLocs().size() != 0 ? new MappedStreamSegment(shard.getGenomeLocs().get(0)) : new EntireStream();
-        return iteratorPool.iterator(dataStreamSegment);
-    }
-
     /**
      * Seek to the specified position and return an iterator through the data.
      *