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Penobscot Bay Watch
POB 1871
Rockland ME 04841

June 13, 2006

Commissioner George Lapointe
21 State House Station
Augusta Maine 04333

RE: Freedom of Access Law Information request

Dear Commissioner
Please treat this letter as a request pursuant to 1 M.R.S.A. 408, the Maine Freedom of Access Statute, to inspect and to copy as necessary the following public records:

All email, memos, meeting minutes, reports, phone logs and other public records in the custody of the office of the Commissioner that pertain to plans and proposals by the Samoset Company and/or Samorock LLC for a pier in the City of Rockland's harbor, including public records pertaining to a potential conflict to said plans or proposals posed by an aquaculture project in Rockland's harbor proposed for the same vicinity. These would be documents sent or received by the Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner Etnier or their staff between March 01, 2006 and June 12, 2006, including any communications on the above topics from Robert Baldacci or other representatives of Samorock LLC to Governor Baldacci, Deputy Commissioner Etnier or their staff.

lf the Commissioner decides to deny permission to so inspect or copy or abstract any of the requested public records, please state the reason for the denial, including the appropriate legal citationts). When written information is withheld as privileged, please 'black out' those words that are privileged. Please do not 'white out' the privileged pages or portions of pages. We look forward to receiving your response within five (5) working days of your receipt of this letter, as required by 1 M.R.S.A. 409 (1). We are prepared to inspect and review these requested public records at the Governor's office. Otherwise, please copy them and mail them to us at the above address.

We ask that fees be waived as the information will not be used for commercial purposes. If a fee is charged for processing this request, please enclose an invoice in the mailed materials. lf the number of pages is greater than 50 pages, please have the appropriate staff person contact me to set an appointment to review the records.

Our telephone number is 975-0655 (cell) email coastwatch@psouth.net.

Sincerely

Ron Huber, executive director
Penobscot Bay Watch

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