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Hawaii Game Management Advisory Commission Meeting Minutes – October 24, 2016 The geographic scope being considered is the following. So this is – it’s gonna be the State of Hawaii – Pacific Islands within the Hawaii and Pacific Islands National Wildlife Refuge Complex. So we’re looking at Midway, Wake, Johnson – so a lot of the far outer islands that are quite a ways away – those are under consideration for this. Areas that we’re excluding are gonna be the Mariana Islands and Rose \[???Samoa\] and that’s because we’d have to a fair bit of work to do public outreach in the Marianas or in American Samoa – so it’s really focused on Hawaii areas. How can you get involved? Well the key thing I look at as a step for involvement in this case is we welcome any participation – the next step of the NEPA process – and that would be when we put out the draft programmatic EIS for public comment. And we will be having public meetings and we will be ensuring that there’s adequate time for people to review the document but we really do want to have comment from people on that document, but that would be the next point for public involvement and at this point I think I’ve probably covered it as best I can. TL: I have a couple questions on what you’ve just gone through and, um, if you can, um, maybe have Dr. Siers and Mr. Chee come up with you - I think, well, some of us are missing but, um... EC: OK. TL: ....we may have other questions and there may be questions from the audience as well that, ah, as to the scope and the breadth of what you’re doing. Um, on this, this programmatic impact EIS - that’s not something that’s in effect right now? It’s something you’re working towards? EC: Correct. It’s something we’re working towards, yes. TL: OK... EC: And just to clarify – four projects that are ongoing right now – they have individual compliance documentation for them, so, you know, the work does have compliance documentation – the key thing we want to do is simplify it and we’ll have standardized compliance documentation. TL: Um, in that – brings up another question is – how did this study in Pohakuloa get started? Cause you say that there’s supposed to be public disclosure and these sort of activities with the public before you start moving into testing, ah, in these areas... EC: The work at PTA is – well, I think this is little – they’re slightly different things so the programmatic EIS is a different thing than this – it’s a – I think the testing would be a subset that’s going to support... 11