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heaviest it settles out and then they recycle the lead and the price of lead <br />on the market is somewhere between — the last time I looked — between <br />50cents — a dollar a pound — I travelled in the course of my NRA training — I <br />travelled to San Diego, they had 2 trap ranges and they had just done a <br />cleanup and they mined $60,000 worth of lead from that facility. So that's <br />money in the ground — now, if you take a facility that exists such as our Hilo <br />Skeet and Trap Range — I did an estimate and came up with about 120 tons <br />of lead laying out there over the 40 years it's been in operation and we sat <br />down with the county and suggested to the county that you might want to <br />start thinking about that because you're responsible for it and lead laying <br />around is a classified by the EPA as toxic material. So someday the county is <br />gonna clean that place up — and it's either gonna be on their initiative or <br />they're gonna have EPA come in and tell them exactly what to do. When we <br />discussed this with the county it was just — I think — ah, two more years and <br />I retire — it kicked the can down the road. So nothing has been done — and <br />it's gonna be very expensive to clean up there because that's all rock and <br />there's a lot of cracks — but I can guarantee you — someday somebody is <br />gonna find a dead fish in Hilo Bay and they're gonna remember somebody <br />told them there's a shooting range over in Hilo and it got lead — used lead <br />and that's gonna be the end of that range —the gate will be locked forever <br />more. So the answer to your question is — you prepare for that and you <br />make sure that you have remediation plans. <br />KM: OK. That's what I was hoping to hear in this plan. Thank you. <br />RH: Yeah, the rifle and pistol ranges are much simpler since the gunfire is <br />directed more at a centralized location. You go way in and dig in the <br />backstop and pull all that stuff out and again you recycle it. So that's the <br />way it's handled. <br />KM: Thank you. <br />c. Ian Cole. East Hawai'i DOFAW Wildlife Biologist will discuss State <br />Shooting Range development issues. <br />IC: Sorry, I don't have a presentation I thought I learned more listening to Dick <br />— I don't have much more. I could offer comments but obviously I haven't <br />been involved in the process of this shooting range historically — sorry <br />12 <br />