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it is we are still looking at the factors in 205A and whether or not, and how those weigh in granting the extension. And what I’m concerned about it is that, as Dr. Walsh pointed out, the study or the task force that was done in 1992 – or before 1992 that resulted in the guidelines being prepared in 1992 – they haven’t been implemented by the County or the Department of Health or -, you know. And so the developers are, you know, and they’re not going to do it on their own, they haven’t done, you know, it hasn’t been done. And so we are at the point today where we have some information that indicates that there is degradation. The Director has indicated that he has some question about whether anything more needs to be done in implementing this. I’m not a scientist, on the other hand, though, in terms of what’s being suggested by the scientists that did prepare this April 2006 report, it is troublesome to me that the recommendations have not -. If you look at all the recommendations, at best it has been 25 percent implemented, and for us to -. There are these predictions about anchialine ponds disappearing in 20 years. I’m concerned that if we don’t start doing something, if we continue to -. An extension is basically another approval of the project that was approved before. The time element was placed for a reason; in my mind it was because this is not a perpetual right. You were granted the entitlement to do the project, you have certain time to do it; if you don’t do it in that time, it disappears unless this body says, you can do it – continue to do it. In the meantime we have this added science that has been presented to us. So what I am struggling with is -. Frankly I don’t feel comfortable that the conditions that are placed on the extension are going to implement the recommendations or the protocol in the West Hawaii Coastal Monitoring Task Force Guidelines. It doesn’t seem like it’s going to be. And so I would like a condition that would satisfy that concern; that would make me feel comfortable that these Monitoring Task Force Guidelines will be implemented. When I grew up, I took it for granted what’s in the ocean. And now that I’ve got all this white hair, I tend not to take it for granted. As I said last time, my son and his friends like to go diving and do all those water things, right? Maybe because they are young. But he’s only 19 and he can see things are getting worse in his short life – from the time that he first started when his grandfather used to take him fishing in the bay in Hilo until today – he can see differences. So now that we have some science that are raising red flags about why this is happening and how this is happening, I am not comfortable that the conditions that we have on this extension, which is essentially saying, go ahead, you can have another 5 or 10 years or whatever to do this, I don’t see that those conditions are going to be effective in implementing the Coastal Monitoring Task Force Guidelines, which Dr. Walsh has made clear, you know, at least you do that so you have a base of information in which something can be figured out what needs to be done. GRAHAM: Commissioner Galdones? GALDONES: Thank you, Mr. Chair. I have a question for Commissioner Iwashita and also a question for Director Yuen. A question to Commissioner Iwashita is is he introducing an amendment to the motion? IWASHITA: No. EXHIBIT C 18