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The Department of Public Lands has determined that the Macau-based Alter City Group Inc., which acquired a lease of a 152-hectare public land for its proposed $360-million casino resort project on Puntan Diablo on Tinian, failed to submit evidence of its financing source for the project, as well as comply with other terms and conditions of its lease agreement.
DUE to the presence of World War II unexploded ordnance or UXO, the Department of Public Lands is looking for an alternative site for the proposed Tinian landfill.
More than 10 years ago, a place called Pina, located southwest of Tinian, was identified as a potential site for the relocation of the landfill, which is currently at Puntan Diablo, an open dump that is now considered a health and environmental hazard.
On June 2, 2009, DPL designated 12 hectares of land in Pina for the construction of the new landfill and other facilities for solid waste management on Tinian.
In her letter to Senate President Jude U. Hofschneider on May 4, then-DPL Secretary Marianne Concepcion-Teregeyo said the study conducted by AMPRO LLC indicated that the proposed relocation site was used during World War II as an Army Air Corps ordnance storage facility in support of the Northfield B29 flight operations. It was found out that a high potential exists for the site to have unexploded ordnanceâ¦re