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address the concerns about the residences that surround the park? We need to look at a more comprehensive small treatment system for the whole village. That is likely what the Director would recommend for the park and the homes around that area. It's a flat area, so maybe we need to create some kind of facility district and convert everybody to sewer treatment. Under the Cesspool Conversion Working Group, anything under the shoreline is considered Priority No. 1 areas. You need to provide some kind of treatment, not septic or cesspool. And that discussion is continuing. That's why it is very important to think about these subdivisions coming in, and what we are permitting versus what we need to come in. That discussion has started with Director Mansour, Planning Director Zendo Kern, and Mayor Roth, so that's going to continue. Anything that comes from the Commission as a policy recommendation is appreciated, he said. Director Mansour added the Department of Parks and Recreation has a project at Kolekole Beach Park where they are proposing to replace the septic system, so we are planning to intercept that design and maybe introduce a different filtration material. To be sustainable, we need to be able to reuse some of our resources that we have. We have great blue sand at the landfill, we have great woodchips and mulch that could introduce carbon into the system that could extract some of the nitrogen out of the effluent. We need to intercept that design and create a pilot program based on the filtering material that he described or the caked layering type of material that Dr. Bennett also had described. So at least we are going to have that opportunity to tap into an upcoming construction project, and build a pilot program that we are going to monitor, and Dr. Bennett and Dr. Asner will collect the data and analyze it, and assist us through the process. b. Status report on action items from previous meeting i. Further discussion relating to EMC support for the PaintCare program. Sanne Berrig, Recycling Specialist, said she had just spoken with Heidi McAuliffe of PaintCare regarding next steps, in that it's a statewide project, we are working with counterparts in the other counties. So we are moving along on it, she said, to see if it is something that will work for us. Any potential effects on DEM related to Res. No. 143-21. Chair Adams asked whether there were any comments now that the resolution, which was to make sure that the recyclable materials that are being shipped out to other countries is going to be managed well, in an environmentally sound manner, a la the Basel Convention, and whether the Department has had the need or opportunity to look at what the ramifications are. Ms. Berrig said we have reached out to our contractor. We just started with a new vendor. One question the contractor had was, not only what other countries have signed on, but also, it's weird, the United States has never ratified it. So it's a great idea. We have not heard back, she said. 0