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WATANABE:I move that a favorable recommendation be forwarded to the County Council on the application for change of zone, application REZ 05-025 based on the Planning Directors recommendations and proposed conditions. ALAMEDA:Is there a second? SPRINGER:Second. ALAMEDA:Motion was made by Commissioner Watanabe and seconded by Commissioner Springer. Discussion? Seeing none, Mr. Hayashi? Oh, hold on. Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Yeah, we have a letter from the State Department of Transportation to th Director Yuen, lets see its dated January 8, this year and item number 1, they state that the project has some potential impacts that will need the applicants attention. These impacts relate to the access road, pollution, drainage and water quality controls and have been outlined in our prior comments on the electric facility. Im wondering especially about the pollution issue and Im wondering what particular types of pollution they were referring to. Is it the NO? ALAMEDA:Mr. Sichter? SICHTER:Thank you. We responded in writing to that. The previous comment that they attached and if I could just briefly summarize. We contacted the Department of Transportation immediately after receiving that letter to, in an attempt to seek clarification on what their comments were. Their comments were specifically related not to the functioning of the plant itself but to the vehicular traffic on the roads and the storm water drainage that would be associated with the plant. And that is why we made a point of adding that storm water drain location on the plot plan because the facility has incorporated a storm water drain system. If I mightjustveryquicklypointoutthatthischannelherewasaddedinaspartofthelandscaping plan and it picks up sheet flow and directs it to this storm water drain. The Department of Transportations concern was principally the impacts of storm water drainage across Queen Kaahumanu Highway and demonstrated to the department that we have taken their concerns under consideration and that the current operational design of the facility has mitigated any impacts that might result and they need not be concerned about that. SIRACUSA:One final question. Id like to know how many megawatts you propose to produce at this plant? SICHTER:The plant currently is operating at 64 megawatts and the addition of the ST7, the steam turbine generator will bring it up to approximately 84. So its about a 24 additional megawatts, approximately. SIRACUSA:Okay and what percentage of the islands peak needs will this meet? ALAMEDA:Mr. Lee? EXHIBIT G 12