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was a really bad windstorm here and a couple of winds did fall, which can happen, even with really hard wood that can happen, the limbs will fall into a place where it won’t impact their facility. And so that’s one of the reasons why we have these trees kind of spaced around like this, is we’re trying to keep it away from this enclosure. And another issue about spacing, we’ve got these trees spaced probably a little bit farther apart than you might see in some other schemes where you’d have eucalyptus and trees like that spaced closely together. Because we want them to achieve a 100-foot height we have to space them out a little more. That’s why we’re using the spacing that you see here. You know, they are a little bit farther apart, but the bigger we want the tree to get the farther apart it has to be from the trees that are around it. So we think if we do it this way we’ll be able to get them the height we want; and we won’t risk any damage to the facility. GRAHAM: Thank you, Mr. Terry. Commissioner Watanabe? SIRACUSA: Well, I wanted to -. GRAHAM: Oh, wait a minute, we’ll have a follow-up. Commissioner Siracusa. SIRACUSA: I wanted to follow-up. Thank you. I would like to suggest to the Director that in revising Condition No. 4, the second sentence, we only omit the words “at 30 feet in height and” so that it reads, “These trees shall be in place within one year from the effective date of this permit.” So that, because otherwise if you take out that whole sentence then we don’t give them a timeline for planting. And I’m wondering if that would be agreeable to you. GRAHAM: Mr. Yuen, does that sound appropriate? YUEN: Well, I’m not sure that it should take a year. You know, my idea is that the permit is approved, you’re going to go to the nursery, and you’re going to start getting the stock planted, and then you’re going to plant them out when -. What is the optimal time for planting them out? What would be the optimal time and size for planting them from a potted stock into the field? TERRY: Well, the way that this would probably be done is they would obtain seedling stock, and there is a facility in Kamuela that does that here, and put them in relatively large containers and then that will give the tree the chance to grow the most. And once it’s in the environment of the nursery it’s a controlled environment. You get a really fast growth rate. So we would probably want a year to get the tree up high enough so that when it’s planted that it’s stable, that it’s high up enough above anything that might compete with it for sunlight and whatnot. Now I note one of the things that has to happen, of course, is the site work for all this has to be done before we can come in and do that. So we’d want to make sure that all this was complete. That would be the time you’d want to come in and plant the trees. But a year with the eucalyptus tree and the nursery, you know, they’ll grow 5 to 10 feet the first year, you know, they really grow fast. So if we can have a year’s time, you know, that’s probably a minimum. If we had two years time that’s probably better. The main thing is to get the seedling plant started so that it’s big enough so that when it’s planted it is really ready to take off. EXHIBIT A 10