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STEELE v. PennDER.

No. 1304 C. D. 1987.

120 Pa.Commw. 510 (1988)

548 A.2d 1337

Elizabeth H. Steele, Petitioner v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Environmental Resources, Respondent.

Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania.

October 19, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip R. Detwiler, with him, Sean P. Flynn, Philip R. Detwiler & Associates, P.C., for petitioner.

M. Dukes Pepper, Jr., Assistant Counsel, for respondent.

Argued September 12, 1988, before Judges CRAIG and PALLADINO, and Senior Judge NARICK, sitting as a panel of three.

OPINION BY JUDGE CRAIG, October 19, 1988:

Elizabeth Steele appeals from a decision of the Department of Environmental Resources (DER) denying her request to inspect a copy of a 1979 memorandum pursuant to the Right-To-Know Law, Act of June 21, 1957, P.L. 390, as amended. Section 2 of the Act states:

Every public record of an agency shall, at reasonable times, be open for examination and inspection by any citizen of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania...

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