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maybe somebody should do something about this. That’s what that essentially the report was saying. IWASHITA: Thank you. GALDONES: Mr. Chair. GRAHAM: Thank you. Commissioner Galdones? GALDONES: Thank you, Mr. Chair. Is it Mr. Walsh? WALSH: Dr. Walsh. GALDONES: Dr. Walsh. Thank you for your testimony. There is a lot of information that you gave us. It appears that you are very knowledgeable with the subject matter that you are representing to us. However, as a Commissioner, after having gotten all this information, I’m asking myself, so what am I going to do with all this information as it relates to the Application and the recommendations? Because from what I see, the recommendations have certain safe guard that the Department is placing as a condition for approval. It appears to me that those conditions will meet concerns that you are raising, unless you are advocating that none of those activities along the coastline should be occurring in order to safeguard our coastal waters. And I don’t think that is where you are going to go. So my question, Doctor, is that are you making any recommendations to amend the recommendations that are provided by the Department? WALSH: I don’t have a clue what those recommendations are, and so I don’t feel comfortable saying anything about it. My only sort of broad scale – and it’s not a recommendation, you know, it’s an observation – is that, going back to what the protocols for water quality monitoring that were developed by the conference in 1992, they say, do this, this, this and this. My question is, well, only this is done, and not this, this and this – why not? And maybe this, this and this should be done in addition to what’s already being done. GALDONES: Okay. Again, Doctor, thank you for the information. And Mr. Chair, taking that into consideration, I echo the same concern or the statement raised by Commissioner Alameda. For myself I’m prepared to deal with the recommendations that is before us right now. GRAHAM: Thank you, Commissioner Galdones. Do we have any further questions? Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA: Just a clarification: From what the Director previously stated – I’m trying to clarify my impressions of it. Do I understand that basically your view is that these – I guess in particular the concerns that were raised by Dr. Walsh in terms of implementing monitoring for these other matters – fecal, sediment, biota – can those be implemented by rule, and that all people within the jurisdiction or within the area covered by the West Hawaii Coastal Monitoring Task Force Recommendation set, that by future rule implementation they can be required to conduct those tests? GRAHAM: Are you asking that of the Planning Director? EXHIBIT C 15