2020-01-08 Exh A Hearing Transcript Cellco Partnership dba Verizon Amend USE 15-056

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CLARKSON: Please introduce yourselves and tell us where you reside, who you represent, and proceed with your comments about the application. MARTIN: Okay, great. My name is Danette Martin. I'm a consultant to Verizon Wireless, and I live in Kailua-Kona. GRODZIN: My name is Noah Grodzin. I'm the real estate manager for Verizon in the State of Hawaii, and I reside in Mililani, Oahu. MARTIN: Okay, so let me give you a little bit background on this. I came on this project after the permit was received in 2015, and at that time, the owner had not signed the lease agreement prior to getting the permit here. So, my job was to finish things up. And, so, I contacted the pastor who was new to this church, Dr.—or Pastor Ray, Raymond Seamon, and he was new to the project as well. And, so we went through the plans with him and he had mentioned that they had newly acquired this property in the back and that he requested that we change the access for that. So, we did sign an agreement with him with the revised access and then we had to go through the NEPA process and that takes some time to do to make sure that they consult with the different agencies and things like that including Fish & Wildlife. So, we're coming back now after we were able to update that requesting this change. I did read the, some of the testimony, the opposing testimony, and unfortunately, I wasn't able to get a radio frequency engineer here, because that's always helpful in talking to the community to explain to them why it's safe and why it's not harmful. And, so, if you don't mind, I would like to just read a little bit of information that I've received from the FCC about this. So, "In 1996, the FCC adopted updated guidelines for evaluating human exposure to RF fields from fixed transmitting antennas such as those used for cellular and PCS cell sites. The [FCC's] guidelines are identical to those recommend by the National Council on Radiation Protection and Measures [Measurements], a non-profit corporation chartered by Congress to develop information and recommendations concerning radiation protection. The FCC's guidelines also resemble the 1992 guidelines recommended by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, a non-profit technical professional engineering society, and endorsed by the American National Standards Institute" and ANSI "a non-profit, privately -funded membership organization that coordinates development of voluntary national standards in the United States. In the case of a cellular and PCS cell site transmitters, the FCC's RF exposure guidelines recommend a maximum permissible exposure level to the general public of approximately 580 microwatts per square centimeter. This limit is many times greater than RF levels typically found at [near] the base of cellular or PCS cell site towers or in the vicinity of other, low [lower-] powered cell site transmitters. Calculations corresponding to a "worst-case" situation (all transmitters operating simultaneously and continuously at the maximum licensed power) show that, in order to be exposed to RF levels near the FCC's guidelines, and individual would essentially have to remain in the main stream EXHIBIT A 4