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thatis a potential someday. But with the ownership of 31,000 acres in this area, I can confirm that there are no development plans for the immediate surrounding properties within the next 10 years, which is why we have comewitha 10-year extension request at this point in time. Ill let the heliport operators speak to their citizenship in the community, if you will. But I think everybody, including the Applicant here, recognizes that to have a successful facility you also have to be a good neighbor. In this case that means restricting the flight paths. Theyre certainly a recognition of the residential areas up in the Waikoloa Village area, the flight plans for the heliport, avoid those areas, also avoid the areas makai of the highway and over the highway itself. There is noise abatement technology that the operators can talk about that they implement on their helicopters. And I will let them respond to your questions regarding Homeland Security issues as they can speak to it better than I can. LINCOLN:Mr. Chairman, Mr. Smith, your questions about the Homeland Security issuesarehandledthroughtheFederalAviationAdministrationandtheyreapplicabletothe State or Federal facilities. As far as the aircraft being off of those facilities, we work with their primary operations inspector and we have internal security programs, both at the heliport with security controls at all hours and for the aircraft operations. Its all inspected and part of our plan with the FAA. SMITH:Thank you. The concern was how do you operate your security? LINCOLN:Well, we do it internally as part of our company, but the security requirements for the light helicopters as ours that we operate has not been fully developed by the Homeland Security and transportation security agency because theyre still dealing with larger air carriers and aircraft -. SMITH:Yes, I understand that. But can you describe your internal security -. LINCOLN:Oh, our internal policy, yeah. SMITH:Correct. LINCOLN:All our aircraft are secured at night at the heliport and we have 24-hour security at the heliport with our maintenance facilities and with our ground staff. SMITH:I understand that, but how about passenger security, I mean -. LINCOLN:Passenger -, security is brought on with identification of the passengers to the people who book the aircraft and then again at the facility. We identify the individuals with drivers licenses and with reservation confirmation of where theyre staying. SMITH:You have methods of discovering weapons on potential passengers? LINCOLN:No, theres no provisions for us to have the authority to do screening such as that. Were not allowed to open someones bags or to do any frisking cause were not law enforcement personnel. The transportation security agency has not addressed going to that level, to the small aircraft at this time. 7