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CPA readies concession agreement for OAG review
The Commonwealth Ports Authority is getting ready to submit its draft concession agreement to the Office of the Attorney General for review.
The CPA board met last week to inform the other members that the concession agreement is ready to be checked for legal sufficiency.
CPA board member and airport facilities committee chair Barrie Toves told Saipan Tribune that the OAG must review the concession agreement before the board adopts it.
“The law requires us to send out any draft regulations to the AG for review for legal sufficiency,” he said. “We are ready now to file it at the CNMI Registrar for publication [before the board could act on it and approve it].”
Toves declined to disclose the contents of the concession agreement.
“It is still a working document, so until such time that the AG has reviewed it and the document has been registered, then it is open for the public for review and comment,” he said.
Toves told Saipan Tribune in an earlier interview that since the signing of Public Law 19-76— the law that grants CPA the power to award concessions—CPA has been working on using the concession agreement as a leverage to add airport renovation to future proposals.
The current concession at the Saipan airport is held by Duty Free Shoppers, DFS, whose contract with CPA already expired in November 2015.
Since then, DFS has been paying a monthly concession fee to CPA.
