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there has been no adverse effect from the golf courses. Dr. Brocks recommendationsincluded the remark that the golf course would have a mitigating effect, asit would provide greater area for the sewage wastewater to be used for both irrigation and fertilization, and therefore reducing the needs for artificial fertilizers and possibly reducing the effect or the presence of the bacteriological content that we are offering to monitor for. In summary, we believe that the additional monitoring and mitigation plans will have the necessary mitigating effect that the Planning Commission seeks. We are also concerned that in 1993, Waikoloa Homesites Venture paid the County a community benefit assessment of a million and half dollars the first installment towards a three million dollar agreed-upon community assessment. And if the Planning Commission should deny the request for the time extension and render it impossible for Waikoloa Homesites Venture to complete the golf course, we would have to attempt to recover this community benefit assessment from the County. Thank you very much. GRAHAM:Thank you, Mr. Yuen. Questions from the Commissioners? CommissionerSiracusa? SIRACUSA:Ihavetwoquestions.Inreadingallthematerialandthereisan awful lot of it about this, I was under the understanding that the Department of Health did not have monitoring guidelines for anchialine ponds, and yet you just said that the Department of Health in conjunction with the Army Corps of Engineers had the responsibility. Could you clarify the apparent discrepancy, please? BAIL:If I can answer. GRAHAM:Ms. Bail, go ahead. BAIL:I think its correct that the Department of Health does not have water quality standards applicable to anchialine ponds. Department of Health -. I believe there was a proposal to the legislature this year to consider adoption of such standards; I dont know the current status of that Bill in the legislature right now. However, our anchialine pond monitoring program has lasted for many years. In 1991 when this SMA 25 was amended, a new Condition 8 was imposed, and that required a comprehensive program for the treatment of the tidal or anchialine ponds including all the monitoring that has been conducted since then. The monitoring is not unsupervised. Its conducted on an on-going basis under the supervision of the Army Corps of Engineers through a partnership agreement with them, so there is oversight on the federal side. Its also overseen by our State Department of Health, so its correct that there is oversight, although there is no regulation. And the reports of the monitoring are reported to the Planning Department every year as well. SIRACUSA:Redirect, please. GRAHAM:Thank you, Ms. Bail. Follow-up, Commissioner Siracusa? SIRACUSA:Which standards are being used as guidelines for this monitoring, or whose standards? In reading the paperwork, it seemed they were using the National Park Service standards, but now you didnt mention those standards at all. You only mentioned the 5EXHIBIT B