Friday, July 18, 2014 at 2:05:07 PM Eastern Daylight Time Subject: FW: Dan A. Hughes Company Files Writs of Mandamus - STATEMENT Date: Friday, July 18, 2014 at 1:51:09 PM Eastern Daylight Time From: To: STATEMENT FROM DAN A. HUGHES CO. Dan A. Hughes Company today ?led two writs of mandamus in Florida courts. The ?rst asks the court to issue a show cause order to the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to show cause why it has failed to rule in a timely manner on the challenge to the Consent Order between the DEP and Hughes ?led by the Collier County Board of commissioners on July 1, 2014. The law governing this challenge requires DEP to either'decide to accept the County?s challenge or refer the matter to the Division of Administrative Hearings within 15 days, a time period that expired on July 16. Dan A. Hughes Company is very interested in expediting a hearing on this matter and is thus asking the court to force the DEP to show cause why it has not acted as it is required to under the law. The second writ is to compel the respond to a records request ?led by the Company on June 26. The request asks the Department to produce a "list of questions? which the DEP Secretary claimed the Department had sent to Hughes in late December during a televised June 25 interview with June Fletcher of the Naples Daily News. The Secretary went on to claim in that interview that this "list of questions? had gone unanswered by the Company, and that this supposed lack of answers was a factor in his decision to issue a Cease and Desist Order to the company on December 31. Hughes has no record of having received any such list, and ?rmly believes it fully answered every question the DEP posed to the company regarding its operations at the Collier Hogan 20-3H well. However, since it has always been the Company?s policy to fully answer any questions posed to it by any regulator, Hughes is asking the court to compel the DEP to produce this list immediately or to admit that no such list exists. David Blackmon I Managing Director if a Strategic Communications I 1001 Fannin St. Ste. 1400 Houston, TX 77002 Confidentiality Notice: This email and any attachments may be con?dential and protected by legal privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, be aware that any disclosure, copying. distribution or use of the email or any attachment is prohibited. if you have received this email in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the sender and then delete this copy and the reply from your system. Thank you for your cooperation. Page 1 of1