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want to separate it out. Theres two different sub-elements or two elements of the flooding issues here. The first is the FEMA floodway, and that is the area in dark blue. Theres really three elements to that. There is a floodway itself, which is in a little cross-hatch we looked at. Theres a 100-year zone which is an area that would be potentially inundated through a 100-year flood, and thats in the blue without the cross-hatch. And then theres another line which is a 500-year flood fringe; and that is an unregulated part, so we dont have to worry about that. Areas outside of that area are not in the FEMA floodway, which doesnt mean that they would get flooded, that doesnt mean theres water. Yes? Im sorry. SPRINGER:Mr. Moore, can you identify the map to which youre referring for therecord? MOORE:Yes,ifIcan.ThisisthefloodstudyforDr.AllanTakase-.I would want to point out that we did, as part of the record submit a map during the field study. This is an exact replica of that, except we have colored in a bright yellow the property, so its a little harder to see. Weve also darkened in, again, from this distance a little harder to see, the road and the property lines. So up close it stands out a little bit, but from this distance its a little harder. But were entering this into the record so if -. Jeff has now two of my maps. So, again, it is the flood study for Dr. Takase that were referring to. Again, this is a representation of the official flood maps that has an overlay over some background information. So this is not an official flood map, but it is a map prepared by Yen Fong as part of his flood study and his submittals and information that was done as part of this report, his reports. I would like to separate these issues and then really try to separate the discussion. What wed like to do first is talk about the floodway and the FEMA requirements which goes through a letter of map revision and the like. There is a separate issue here that we looked at; and thats the little drainage-way, the drainage-way on the Hamakua side of the property. That is a localized drainage-way. Its really collecting road runoff from the region and flowing it through the property. And the impacts and implications of that are really looked at through a separate study, and theyre integrated. But in order to deal with anything in the floodway, Yen has to do whats called a Flood Study, and that looks at the overall impacts of the FEMA floodway. That FEMA floodway encompasses thousands of acres within this drainage area, including the water from this little sub- drainage-way, so that water is accounted as part of the overall flooding. What happens in the FEMA studies is that they will look at tributaries; and as tributaries add in, it accumulates water and, so, as you move downstream, more and more water is in the floodway. This little drainage channel is not a tributary study by the Army Corp. So the water flow is already accounted as part of the floodway in the blue. So we just added 3