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WHEREAS, the IRT works with state, county, and municipal governments,Native American tribes, and nonprofit organizations that have 501(c) status with the U. S. Internal Revenue Service to construct projects to the specifications of the applying entity. The services that may be provided are designing, engineering, construction (zero labor cost), land clearing, planting, and demolition of buildings that do not contain hazardous material. The IRT is qualified to build subterranean, horizontal, and vertical structures. The IRT may bring its own heavy equipment or rent it in the municipality if the application specifies that heavy equipment will be needed. All materials must be furnished by the applying entity. This joint process may save from 30-60 percent of the construction cost while allowing the IRT service members to be trained. The IRT programs finds engineering and construction professions within the military to lead the project. Service members without those profession qualifications are trained on-the-job by the IRT professionals. The IRT works directly with and can be supervised by the appropriate County engineers, project managers, and inspectors as the Department of Water Supply ("DWS") chooses; and WHEREAS, the DWS has investigated and determined that potable water is most likely to be found along the 1,750-foot-elevation topographical line in South Kona. There is a property owner who is willing to sell or otherwise negotiate to convey land (TMK: 8-2-001:113) at the proper elevation to the Board of Water Supply; and WHEREAS, the DWS needs between one to two acres of land on which to drill an exploratory well. If the exploratory well meets DWS requirements, DWS will approve construction of an electrical control building, a one-million-gallon reservoir, place a twelve-inch water main from the reservoir to the mauka location of an existing eight-inch water main on Kiloa Road, Captain Cook, and replace that eight-inch water main with a twelve-inch water main to the Mamalahoa Highway; now, therefore, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE COUNTY OF HAWAII that the Board of Water Supply is urged to authorize the placement of a new Captain Cook well, reservoir, support buildings, and water main in its five-year plan, authorize the DWS to complete an application to the IRT to engineer and construct the well to DWS standards, and may request these services to be completed in phases in the application. 3