RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:RE:Need info. Subject: MELCC's response to the question sent on April 24, 2020 by the commission of the Public Hearings Office on the Environment (BAPE) for the Matawinie mining project Mrs, The purpose of this letter is to provide the answer to the question addressed to the Ministry of the Environment and the Fight against Climate Change (MELCC) in a document dated April 24, 2020 sent by Mrs. Annie St-Gelais to Mrs. Marie-Lou Coulombe. Q-1 Focus Graphite submitted in 2014 an impact study for the mining project of Knife Lake. In a document filed on December 31, 2019, Focus Graphite provided an update for this project: - The initiator received a first series of questions from the MELCC in April 2015, to which he provided answers in November 2016. - The initiator received a second set of questions in March 2017 and met the MELCC in April 2018 on this subject. - It is currently continuing its efforts to complete the technical analyzes necessary to answer this second series of questions (at 31 December 2019). Source: https://www.sedar.com/GetFile.do?lang=EN&docClass=7&issuerNo=00011411&iss uerType = 03 & projectNo = 03024382 & docId = 4675574 1. Could you tell us if this project is still active in the procedure environmental impact assessment and review, as of today?