Azua senator Rafael Calderon reports that the special commission that he chairs, which is studying the legislative proposal to declare Loma Miranda as a National Park, will be visiting the area today, Thursday 27 March. The legislator did not specify the exact time of this field visit, but he mentioned that all the commission members would be traveling in the morning.
He said that they formalized a request for opinions on this legislation yesterday, Wednesday 26 March, by sending letters to the Ministry of the Environment and the Legal Advisor to the Executive Branch. As the information and reports they have received so far has been contradictory, the commissioners have not been able to reach a firm opinion on the issue. He pointed out that while Environment Minister Bautista Rojas Gomez has stated publically that it is not possible to carry out a mining operation on Loma Miranda, he has yet to issue an opinion on the legislation for declaring the site a National Park.