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Vice Chair Gaffney asked if modification would be required so that the Waimea Transfer Station would work. Detouring signage, and a traffic plan for these sites, at minimum, the Director said. We dont probably need to do construction modification. Its more about the training and the traffic plan, detouring cones, and these type of modifications for these four sites. Commissioner Robinson asked if there have been any accidents or any safety issues that have happened at the other locations that will not allow trailers. There definitely have been near misses, he said. Chair Adams shared her screen to show the proposed rule. DEM did two safety reviews and came back with saying the only locations that are going to work are these four, plus Wai They will designate which locations will allow trailers based on their safety studies. And that was the four or five in the future sites. Theyve got to be registered trailers and no reversing, and the director will notify the public. And we have made comments to notify them everywhere, signage and whatnot. So, this is a simplified version that will be proposed in the next couple of weeks, sometime in January. This is different from what we saw before, Chair Adams continued. They simplified it. They used to have that the Mayor and Corporation Counsel had to sign off on which locations, and they took that out to allow the director to decide which ones work. And there was some other detail in there about the public notification and that was simplified. Vice Chair Gaffney asked about the prohibition on transfer station users reversing trailers toward the chute. He did not understand how they can use the greenwaste chute at the Kealakehe Transfer Station without reversing the trailer to the chute. Director Mansour said part of it is we allow trailers only so they could come in without reversing, because there is no other traffic. So technically they could have the whole area to themselves. They are probably going to walk around the trailer to dispose of that waste into the chute. But thats the intent. If we dont allow additional traffic, it will be easier to control rather than reversing. Commissioner Robinson asked what guidelines were used to determine what is considered safe and unsafe? Was it Department of Transportation rules? Where is the line between being safe and being unsafe? Director Mansour said the Safety and Risk Management Team is composed of qualified and certified safety officers for multiple departments, including DEMs. So we relied on the safety officers that did the investigation research. They looked at the design and the return radius of these vehicles. So, theres a lot that goes into these type of report. There are design parameters that we must adhere to. 12