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MAY-28-04 FAI 11:33 AM CofH Clerical Center FAX:608 933 1529 PAGE 2 paying for it anyway, someway or another, The cost will be passed on to us either in (heir contract, or in increased landfill tipping fees that trickle down to all consumers. Private vendors operate on profit, not charity. It is pure fantasy to think that a private vendor will pay for and build a Sort Station by next May given the complexities in the government's procurement process as well as the public's ambivalence about paying for technologies that arc expensive, polluting, or unproven. If the Council cuts the Department of Environmental lylanagement's budget, or even puts the money in their (:ontingency Fund, the real effect will be to delay operation of a Sort Station by a yeaz. F,very day that the Council delays construction of the Sort Station will be a day of that much more gazbage filling the Hilo landfill Deferring construction will also severely limit our options and alternatives should the waste technologies that are being considered, fail to materialize as represented. Time is of the essence. Every day of delay means we aze day closer to having 90 trash trucks hauling trash from Fast Hawaii to West Hawaii. And every day of delay risks increased oversight by the Department of Health. The sky is not falling. But the landitll is filling up. The time to act is now. This viewpoint is submitted on behalf of the members of the Environmental Management Commission, and unanimously supported by our members, at our most rentnt meeting on Wednesday, May 26, 2004: Sincerely, Riley W. Smith, PF„ Chair, Environmental Management Commission David Kimo Frankel, Vice Chair Marjorie Eruvay, Member Sam Kawamura, Member Arnold Okamura, Member Hul;lt Ono, PE, Member Lorraine Stahr, Member (absent) Sam Sumner, Member Caroline Witcher, Member