PaganWatch amends requests
Dear chairwoman and director,
Due to the MPLA Board’s rejection of the Azmar application, it was decided that our earlier and original request for documents should be amended to reflect the current state of affairs. Accordingly, and pursuant to the Open Government Act (1 CMC 9917), this office hereby amends its earlier request and instead requests that the following public records be made available for inspection within 10 days of this request:
All public records relating to, and including, the mining permits, leases, licenses and other agreements between MPLA (and its predecessors) and JG Sablan (and its assignees and affiliates) including, but not limited to, all compliance and inspection reports, staff recommendations, board minutes and agendas including items or conversations about JG Sablan, letters of default and notices of violation, amendments, correspondence, and all other public documents showing the history, status and monitoring of JG Sablan mining efforts of Pagan.
Please contact this office as soon as the documents are ready for inspection. Once inspected, and if copies are needed, this office will make payment for any and all copy charges necessary to reimburse you for any actual costs incident to such copying.
I look forward to hearing from you within the next ten (10) days. However, it is understood that Alan Lane is off-island and may need some additional time to help you get the documents ready for our inspection. Should that be the case, please have Mr. Lane contact the undersigned as soon as possible. In any event, we ask that we at least be provided the documents on or before December 31, 2004.
Thank you for your attention to this important matter.
F. Matthew Smith
Attorney at Law