-5- that respondent would defer any action on the application until November 28, 2002. On December 9, 2002, following the expiration of the extended deadline, petitioner requested by letter an additional 10-day period to respond. On December 18, 2002, in presumably intersecting mailings, both respondent and petitioner sent each other letters of even date: respondent notified petitioner that its application was administratively closed, although the application review would be reopened without an additional user fee if the requested information enumerated in the September 27, 2002, letter was submitted within 90 days. Petitioner’s correspondence provided additional information correlating to the itemized requests in the September 27, 2002, letter. On December 31, 2002, respondent sent petitioner a letter (the disputed letter) containing a litany of particular insufficiencies outstanding in petitioner’s application, which included, among other things, conflicts inherent in its governance structure denoting private foundation status and petitioner’s failure to adopt related prophylactic provisions in its organic documents, as well as information about petitioner’s fundraising activities, membership details, and operations. The shortcomings listed in the disputed letter reflect respondent’s review and assimilation of petitioner’s responses to the September 27, 2002, letter included in its letter of December 18,Page: Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Next
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