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Hawaii Et~ctric Light C®~pany, Inc. • PO E3ox 1027 • Hilo, HI 96721-1027 Warren F~. W. Lei, P.E. P,,,, ®ecember 8, 1993 l The Honorable Keith W. Ahue Chairman of the t3oard Department of Land and Natural Resources State of Hawaii 130 Kalanimoku Building ~ Honolulu, HI 96813 ®ear Mr. Ahue: am writing about your September 20, 1993, letter in which you comment on the Revised Draft Environmental Im act Statement for the Keahole Generatin Station P 9 unit addition. Hawaii Electric Light Company's consultant for the EIS, CH2M DILL, will be preparing a separate response to your comment letter. We believe our Revised final EIS {EIS) and the responses to the comments on the Revised Draft will fully satisfy all legal requirements for your acceptance of our EIS. Acceptance of our EIS is a very important initial step towards satisfiying the Island of I-lawaii's 1995 electrical needs. Your acceptance is urgently needed in order to prevent rolling blackouts on the Sig Island resulting from delays in completing future generating units wrhen they are required. Your acceptance of our EIS and the Land Board`s approval of our CDIJP amendment, are two of the very significant approvals needed before we can proceed with the expansion of our existing Keahole generation plant. We need to have the next generating unit completed in mid-1995 when additional generation will be necessary. X1.0 other viable site has been proposed for new generating capacity in 1995, and the earliest date for which an independent power producer (IPP) has proposed new generating capacity is at the end of 1996 or later. We note that, very recently, an IPP proposing to build a 58 MW power plant on Department of Hawaiian Home Lands property near Kawaihae Harbor received a negative declaration for its EIS. Nevertheless, the IPP does not expect to have its generation unit ce~mpleted until late 1996 or later. ~~i - An HFI C~moanv