. -- to the permitee. there is a foundation upgrade permit that was submitted on december 9, 2010, and that was also issued on the same day. then, the third permit is a structural upgrade permit, which was submitted on january 4, 2011, and that was issued sometime in february. work began under these issued foundation upgrade permits and the structural upgrade permits. as i stated in my brief, unfortunately, those permits that were submitted did not correctly identify the scope of work of what is the existing building and what was the new construction that should have been covered under the site permit, and that portion of the work should not have been approved by the department of building inspection until after the site permit was issued, so the work was done under issued permits, but i would knowledge, and i acknowledge, that they were not lawfully done. subsequent to the collapse of the risks -- roof, the department actually revoke the structural upgrade permit, has find the applicant, -- has fined the

. >> i was not contacted by the committee -- permitee.am not sure how i could chase them down to get it in my hands. i did try. but it is no longer valid in any other location. and it may be that the police department has maybe gotten their hands on the liquor license. i am not sure. we could ask. in addition, we issued a director's order revising the security plan at missed like the club -- at mist nightclub. there were seven separate instances in or around club mist that resulted in police reports. there was a meeting to discuss reports about breaches in security that were indicated in the reports that we were getting. based on that meeting, additional conditions were imposed on mist's permit via the security plan. to this point, i think we are doing much better over there. i do not have any indication that they are not following their new restriction. lastly, there was a director's order revising the security plan issued to 550 barnveld, related to an incident that happened on march 25 where police reported a weapon being fired inside

the permitee apparently started work without the proper permits, and that has been acknowledged by the letter submitted by ellis barkley. under some permits having to do with structural and foundation work, preparatory to extending this building, the neighboring owner did a substantial amount of work that was not allowed, and in addition, on march 12, the roof of that property collapsed. it was a saturday. a lot of my client's tenants were home. they were startled, scared, and debris fell into the light wells on my client's property, and some of the wall of my client's property was affected and harmed. as a result, a notice of violation had been issued to my client to secure a building permit to come in and fix for wall, and she cannot even get to that wall because of the adjacent wall on 1140 page. i think it might be helpful to show you -- commissioner hwang: sorry, could you say that again? your client issued a n.o.v., but cannot get to it? >> she is obligated to pull the building permit to fix her wall. she would love to fix her wall. she connected to her wall because the wall of t

i don't know, do you know anywhere in the endangered species act that allows agencies to make a permitee mitigate for other people's violations? >> the way i phrase it is a short statute. it doesn't require what you particularly described. i think it's authorized, the secretary of interior has a lot of authority under some broad terms so i believe it's not required, but it is authorized. >> mr. chairman, i think the one thing in the rule making were so many of these things were done by -- in the rule making process that was never included in the legislation that was passed by the representatives of the people in the united states, and i think this is one thing that republicans and democrats ought to be able to work at getting the act back to where it was meant to, make sure the clean water act is cleaning up and helping the environment, not just fulfilling a bureaucratic agenda and hurting it, but the clean air act is implemented to protect the public healthings not just running up a cost, and i hope that both sides can work on this one, and i appreciate your testimony today. >> i thank

i don't know, do you know anywhere in the endangered species act that allows agencies to make a permitee to allow for other violations? >> it's a pretty short statute, and it doesn't require what you particularly described. i think it's authorized, the secretary of interior has a lot of authority under some broad term, so i believe it's not required, but it is authorized. >> mr. chairman, i believe the one thing in the rule making were so many of these things were done by -- in the rule making process that was never included in the legislation that was passed by representatives post of the united states, and i think this is one thing republicans and democrats can work at, getting the act back to where it was meant to, making sure the clean water act is helping the environment, not just fulfilling a bureaucratic agenda and hurting it, that the clean act is implemented to protect the public health, not just running up costs. i hope that both sides can work on this one, and i appreciate your testimony today. >> i thank the gentleman. the gentleman from virginia is recognized for five minute

i don't know, do you know anywhere in the endangered species act that allows agencies to make a permiteellow for other violations? >> it's a pretty short statute, and it doesn't require what you particularly described. i think it's authorized, the secretary of interior has a lot of authority under some broad term, so i believe it's not required, but it is authorized. >> mr. chairman, i believe the one thing in the rule making were so many of these things were done by -- in the rule making process that was never included in the legislation that was passed by representatives post of the united states, and i think this is one thing republicans and democrats can work at, getting the act back to where it was meant to, making sure the clean water act is helping the environment, not just fulfilling a bureaucratic agenda and hurting it, that the clean act is implemented to protect the public health, not just running up costs. i hope that both sides can work on this one, and i appreciate your testimony today. >> i thank the gentleman. the gentleman from virginia is recognized for five minutes. >>