Request
| Submitted | Aug. 28, 2023 |
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From: Kevin LaMarca
To Whom It May Concern:
Pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act, I hereby request the following records:
I am searching for the following report, performed by the Minnesota Department of Health in 1978: Evaluation of Employee Exposure to Asbestos at the MacArthur Company, St. Paul, MN. Minneapolis, MN.
In addition to this report, I am looking for all correspondence, memos, studies, evaluations, reports, plans of action, recommendations, and/or citations between the MacArthur Company in St. Paul, MN and the Minnesota Dept. of Health.
The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.
In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.
Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 business days.
Sincerely,
Kevin LaMarca
From: Minnesota Department of Health
Good morning,
This is to acknowledge receipt of your data request below. It has been assigned ID#23-141. Your request will be forwarded to the relevant divisions or staff to determine whether the Minnesota Department of Health ("MDH") has data responsive to your request. We will be in touch once we know more to discuss next steps.
Future communications or inquiries about your request should be directed to Health.DataPracticesRequest@state.mn.us<mailto:Health.DataPracticesRequest@state.mn.us>.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Aug. 28, 2023. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Muckrock Staff
To Whom It May Concern:
I wanted to follow up on the following Minnesota Government Data Practices Act request, copied below, and originally submitted on Aug. 28, 2023. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response.
Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.
From: Minnesota Department of Health
Hello Mr. LaMarca,
MDH does not have data responsive to your request.
The report you have requested may have been archived with the Minnesota Historical Society<https://www.mnhs.org/preservation/state-archives/collection> (MHS). I attempted to reach out MHS to see if they had the report in their state archives collection before responding to you because I did not want to redirect you to MHS if they did not have the report. Unfortunately, I received an auto-response from MHS indicating that they are experiencing an extremely high volume of reference and research inquiries and it could take more than 8 weeks to get a response. If MHS does have the report you would still have to request the report directly from them - MDH would not be able to provide it to you as we do not maintain the report. As such, I do not want to delay your request further by waiting for MHS to respond to me whether they have the data. You can make the request directly to MHS by contacting the MHS Gale Library at 651-259-3300 or via email at reference@mnhs.org<mailto:reference@mnhs.org>.
Best,
MDH Data Practices Team
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