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July 5, 2012
Ms. Kathryn Symank
Associate Vice President for Human Resource
& Administrative Services
Office of the Chief Business Officer
1255 TAMU
College Station, Texas 77843-1255
Environmental Law Center at the American Tradition Institute • 2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW #186
Washington, D.C. 20006 • www.atinstitute.org
In the event that the University's custodian of public records determines that a release of a given
record would contain confidential or private information or otherwise seek to withhold
information, it has a duty to ask for the opinion of the state’s attorney general pursuant to
Sec. 552.301(a).
ATI is a tax-exempt, 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(3), non-profit public interest organization. As such, it
does not seek these records for commercial purposes. Rather, ATI seeks these records to
determine certain uses of taxpayer-funded resources by Professor Dessler including to what
extent (if any) they are used in the performance or pursuit of certain “global warming” related
activism, combining political or policy advocacy with dedicated publicly funded resources.
In the interests of expediting the search and processing of this Request, ATI is willing to pay fees
up $100. Please provide an estimate of anticipated costs in the event that fees for processing this
Request will exceed $100.
Furthermore, as this matter involves a significant issue of public interest, please produce
responsive records as they become available on a rolling basis but consistent with the Public
Information Act’s prescribed timelines.
To keep costs and copying to a minimum please provide copies of all responsive records in
electronic format if you have them (records requested are emails, so this should be all of them).
To expedite matters please direct all other disclosures to my attention at the following address:
American Tradition Institute
1489 Kinross Lane
Keswick, VA 22947
If you have any questions, or would like to discuss this matter further, don't hesitate to contact
me by email at chris.horner@atinstitute.org.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Sincerely,
Christopher C. Horner
chris.horner@atinstitute.org
202.262.4458 (M)
Environmental Law Center at the American Tradition Institute • 2020 Pennsylvania Ave. NW #186
Washington, D.C. 20006 • www.atinstitute.org