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circumstances beyond your control? I believe that there are provisions for that sort of the thing. Why did you let it keep going until you were in violation? GRAHAM: Mr. Miranda? MIRANDA: Okay. I didn’t, after the hearing with you folks and the special permit was granted, I didn’t realize, and maybe it’s my ignorance, that I had a time limit of one year to comply and complete everything. I never knew that, really. And I told my attorney, I said I didn’t realize we were under a time limit; if not I would have not done some of my jobs that were pressing and worked on my own stuff. And I totally admit this, if I knew. I remember a couple key things, one was having a slab down and one having a containment area for my fuel. To me those two things was high on my priority list so I wouldn’t have any fuel spills or oil spills on my property; and that I’ve been doing all along. As far as being the one-year time limit, you know, you can do whatever you have to do. But I’m sorry that I didn’t know we had a one-year time limit. And I’m wanting an extension, and I’m getting everything done. GRAHAM: Other Commissioners? Commissioner Woodward? WOODWARD: Yeah, Mr. Miranda, one thing that concerns me, and I don’t think Jeff really mentioned this, but it’s part of Condition No. 8 of your special permit, all vehicles were to be confined within the one acre of the, that the permit allowed. And on three occasions, first on th October 6 of last year, semi-trailers were noticed up high on the hill easily visible from the highway and certainly not within the one acre; and you were notified about that by certified mail thth in October. Two follow-up inspections, December 12 of last year and January 25, there were still heavy equipment parked up there. Now evidently Chris tells me this has been moved but, you know, that makes me wonder a little bit why this wasn’t taken care of back in October and we had a continuing problem with that. And I think really from the standpoint of my concerns, that’s a bigger concern than having the paperwork in on time, to be honest with you. And, you know, I would be concerned that next week we find heavy trailers back up there again. GRAHAM: Mr. Miranda? MIRANDA: Sure. If you look at the pictures, C-1 and C-3, almost all the equipment that was up on the hill was parked in this area. And in order for me to make this slab and prepare this ground, I only have one acre that I asked for; and this is about half an acre right here. So what I could I moved it to higher ground and parked it up on the hill, thinking that it would be no problem. You know, I have to build and I cannot build with all my trucks and equipment parked on this area that you see all farmed up right now. So I moved that out of the way so I could build. I had planned to have this building up the end of August, by summer, and it didn’t happen. Then I had planned to have this building up before the end of the year, that was my goal, and it didn’t happen either. And now I’m shooting to have this thing up by this summer. Okay? If we go back just a little bit, with that big earthquake last year, you know, I worked on the Paauilo Bridge from 6 o’clock in the morning till 7 o’clock at night for seven days a week hauling fill where they have that bypass temporary bridge, me and my truck driver, for Hawaii Dredging. And we stayed on that job because that thing was pressing. My yard was like secondary, you know. I could still run my trucks so I parked things up on the hill and tried to do EXHIBIT A 5