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05-08-2007, 05:20 PM
The Dominican Fiesta hotel says it has been working closely with Ministry of Environment officials to deal with complaints from neighbors and find a solution to the air and noise pollution from the hotel's electricity generator. According to hotel spokesman George Perez, the hotel has done everything to be in line with the Ministry's requirements, which led the hotel to spend US$1 million in trying to solve the problem. Diario Libre writes that an April 2006 report described the noise and air pollution by the hotel as "low", but the Dominican Academy of Sciences challenged this claim, saying that their research found that noise could be heard at 69 and 71 decibels at a 40-meter distance from the generator. Manuel Vazquez, head of the Environmental Protection Department said that officials would visit the Dominican Fiesta during the week to carry out a general inspection and to establish whether the hotel is authorized to run its generator 24 hours a day.
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