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W. YUEN: My name is William Yuen. I am an attorney representing Waikoloa Homesites Venture, which is the owner of the property that is the subject of the extension request. My address is 1001 Bishop Street, Honolulu, Hawaii. I submitted a letter yesterday to the Planning Department. At the previous hearing I went on record, on behalf of Waikoloa Homesites Venture, stating that Waikoloa Homesites Venture was prepared to accept the Planning Department’s recommended Conditions 24 through 26. We are also prepared to accept the Planning Department’s recommendation now that Waikoloa Development Company has withdrawn its suggested changes. Since Waikoloa Homesites Venture did not conduct the monitoring, the only additional information that I submitted along with my letter yesterday was some testimony that Dr. Steven Dollar gave before the State Land Use Commission in December of 2005, directly related to a question raised by one of the Commissioners at the last meeting, being whether development was the source of algae blooms that were experienced along the West Maui coast some 15 years ago. And Dr. Dollar testified before the Land Use Commission that he had conducted a number of studies directly related to the algae bloom epidemic, and found that there were sufficient natural nutrients occurring in the ocean to support the algae blooms, and that neither agriculture nor development activities nor human activities contributed to the development of algae blooms. That’s basically all I have. Thank you. GRAHAM: Do we have any questions from the Commissioners for the two representatives here? Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE: I have a question. We just got a response to some of your proposed changes to Conditions 24 to 26 and responses from the Director and within that I assume that you also had this. I believe he is referring to the second golf course, cause there were concerns about the second golf course. This letter is from the Director to the Planning Commission dated February 12, 2007, and the suggested revised wording in Condition 26 is “The IGCMP requirements for the second course shall be conditioned at the time of plan approval. The IGCMP for the first course shall contain, at a minimum, the following requirements.” So I assume that is in addition to that at the very beginning of the original Condition 26. Are you then in agreement with that revision? W. YUEN: On behalf of Waikoloa Homesites Venture and the first course, we have no objection. BAIL: And on behalf of Waikoloa Development Company that will build the second golf course subject to this Condition, we are agreeable to this revised Condition proposed th by the Department on February 12. GRAHAM: Commissioners? Commissioner Iwashita? IWASHITA: I don’t know if these testifiers would want to address it even if I ask them. I have some questions related to the recommendations in the Review of Coastal Monitoring Data for Developments in West Hawaii prepared by the Marine Science Department at the University of Hawaii at Hilo. So would you lawyers want to answer these technical kinds of questions about the recommendations, and I guess what your clients’ positions would be about, I guess in my mind, developing conditions or changing conditions to include some of the recommendations EXHIBIT C 3