2021-02-23 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes

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a sound assessment working group — there's all the people that were in there — notice that the resort facilities played a major part as did Waikoloa Land which is developing the resort area. People were still unhappy so we conducted the 311 gunfire sound test —this one was a little bit different in that it was mostly analytical — it's the same philosophy that was used to do sound measurements for a proposed raceway over in West Hawaii where you have a sound and you propagate it over the landscape with all kinds of different climatic conditions etc. etc. And that sound test was conducted by PBR Hawaii and a different consultant — large caliber rifle shotgun — gunfire generated a single range site — we just needed to get the level of gunfire into the program establishment at level was — we did build a sound mitigation device to show that we could reduce the sound we generated in some of our proposed facilities — the gunfire was recorded at the range site — and then background was later recorded at the facility — they took about a week going around to different locations in the facility to make the background noise and all those data were massaged into the data computer program and the result was — well there are some more of the criteria — rifle fire projection was within resort background sound — the resort directed shotgun fire such as the sporting place course where you go around and fire in different directions when you pointed the shotgun directly in a westerly — in the direction of the site — the sound exceeded the lowest background level that was measured at the resort by a small amount. This was within a courtyard of one of the condos. That's where the guys looked for the lowest, quietest place in the resort and were slightly exceeded the background noise — we went back and re -oriented some of the shotgun facilities so no gunfire was directed at the resort and we believe that would resolve that problem. This is kind of a busy picture of — I have copies of this presentation by the way — and if anybody wants one I can email it to you —just let me know — but this one shows where the three sound tests — where the sound was generated — where it was measured basically within the landscape of the area. OK. What is the complex? It's a world class facility built to existing safety standards using noise mitigation technology — venues for all shooting activities — firearm safety and education center — satisfied local needs — it could be a tourism magnet and generate lots of bucks except the Hawaii Tourism Authority doesn't want to talk about anything but sandy beaches, 61