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The other concern from the community was that there was a cemetery there, and I did -. The testing showed that there wasn't, and I also did, sorry -. I also did some further oral interview work with people who had knowledge of a former cemetery on an adjacent parcel, the little small remnant parcel that's shown on a series of these exhibits that currently Kimi Cook has a house on. That parcel was part of a larger Land Commission award that ultimately ended up in the Mueller family. And the Mueller family had a cemetery on that parcel which had been, members of their family members of their family from that cemetery and relocated them to elsewhere. So I consulted with both the former property owner of the Snug Harbor property to get an idea of whether, what the extent of grading and dozing and digging had gone on in that property over the years. And he described that the property had been completely graded, and he had to dig a big, giant trench to tie into the sewer at some point. And I asked him if he had ever encountered burials or other archaeological resources there, and he explained to me no. And I also spoke with Mrs. Elizabeth Lee, a longtime resident of the area. Her aunt or mother, I can't remember which, once actually lived in one of th Harbor property; and she remembered going to that cemetery all of the time. She was collaterally related to the Muellers. She had an aunt who was married to a Mueller. And she described to me, on site, where the cemetery was. The walls that exist on the adjacent, are shared with the adjacent Kimi Cook property were the boundary walls of this little walled-in cemetery is, and there was a staircase leading up where the current driveway is for the, on the Cook property now. So that, in my mind, clarified where the cemetery area was; and the subsurface testing clarified that there were no subsurface archaeological remains intact on the property there. VITOUSEK:Dr. Rechtman, can I ask you to refer to the map which i on the wall behind you, which refers to the archaeological complexes, and just for the sake of clarity with the Hearings Officers, can you point out where the cemetery had been located? This is the cemetery that had been moved by the Mueller family. But can you show where it had been located? RECHTMAN:It was located on this little parcel right here. VITOUSEK:Okay. And so that's indicating the parcel that is immediately, is adjacent to and immediately south of the subject property -. RECHTMAN:Correct. VITOUSEK:Is that correct? Okay. And that, you referred to that Mueller property, is that correct? 19