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WOODWARD: All right, thank you. We’ll begin with you since you have the mike in your hand. If you give us your name and address, and then you may begin with your presentation. J. RICHARDS: John Richards, Kahua Ranch, Box 837, Kamuela, Hawai‘i. Operations Manager for Kahua Ranch Limited. M. RICHARDS: My name is Monty Richards, Chairman of the Board. J. RICHARDS: Basically, there’re two elements to this. One, of course, I’m here to answer any questions; most of it, of course, is covered. And then when it comes to the conditions, there is one that we’d like to amend, if possible. Are there any questions? WOODWARD: Which condition, and how would you like to amend it? J. RICHARDS: It has to do with the reconsolidation. One of the things about Kahua, we have a little bit of a unique circumstance in the fact that we are not looking to move, sell, change. We’ve been in the operation on this location for 80 years now. Those buildings, especially the one that the property line passes directly through the center of has been on the location for a long time. That was actually surplus from Camp Tarawa in ’46, so it’s been there for 63 years now. Is that right? Yeah, 63 years. And we, you know, personally, I’d like to avoid reconsolidation, as those are historical boundary lines. And anything that we have to do where we would be changing the ownership or modifying the land in any way would require reapportionment at that time. This is all Land Court; we want to avoid any Land Court issues being brought in. WOODWARD: So this building listed as storage building is an existing building? J. RICHARDS: Correct. All these buildings have been in place for a minimum of 25 years roughly and then as long as 63 years. WOODWARD: Okay, very good. Any questions from other Commissioners? Commissioner Bowman. BOWMAN: Just for the record, I want to say that the applicant is a friend of mine, but it will in no way affect my voting. I just have a question. The Department of Health in their memo said they are “unable to make comments to the proposed project at this time. Before we can offer any comments, the applicant needs to address the amount of wastewater to be generated by the project, the quality of the wastewater to be generated by the project, the location of all existing wastewater systems, and the treatment and disposal of wastewater from the project.” And I guess my concern is also oil, too. And I know that some of the requirements is a Solid Waste Management program. But can you at all address the wastewater, if there is -? J. RICHARDS: Well, the wastewater, there is not much that’s actually generated; I mean, it’s washing of vehicles and it’s basically washing dirt off of, you know, on dirt where the vehicles are. Just to clear any concerns, though, the way we manage all of our waste products that are produced of all of these vehicles, we actually have recycling plans for the appropriate, EXHIBIT B 3