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TAYLOR:Im Robert Taylor with Taylor Built Construction Co., Inc., P.O. Box 149, Naalehu, Hawaii. SPRINGER:Thank you, Mr. Taylor, well begin testimony with you, please. TAYLOR:Okay. Im in favor of this proposed usage as a quarry. Weve been fighting in getting aggregates for years out in the Ka u district. We have to travel to Hilo and Kona. The price ends up being very expensive, the trucking, the wear and tear on the vehicle, the waste of fuel. The customers complain about how high the prices are based on Hilo and Kona. Lately, weve had a serious problem with availability. Weve had to wait up to four weeks to get a load of concrete because of how busy Hilo and Kona is. And so, I, you know, it just seems to me we live in the biggest area, you know, on the island and the resources are there and its foolish not to be able to get them right in ourownarea.SothatswhereIstandonit. SPRINGER:Thankyou,Mr.Taylor.Commissioners,doyouhaveany questions for the testifier? Thank you. Dr. Schulz? SCHULZ:Yes. While I sympathize with Mr. Taylors business interest and the Applicants, and Im not against per se against the project as such but as a physician concerned about health, mine and the publics health, which I fought for about over 50 years in my life. As you could read up today in the big feature of the West Hawaii paper, I have a whole page on my background, in case you want to know who I am. So I have always been fighting for the interest of the public. So how can I not be here? Its obvious. When you look at the map and you see where we live and the others, Mark Twain and Green Acres, youll see that this is direct in the path of the trade winds. We get the whole fallout, not only from, Im not talking about dust because we get dust from the macadamia nut farms as well. All our, when our winds are out, everythings covered with brown dust when they work their fields, the macadamia nut farms. But this is a matter entirely different. Im talking about the asphalt, primarily, carcinogenic as it is; and theres no doubt about it. I am very familiar with toxicology; and, as such, that is all I have to say concerning just this little bit that Ive said. I dont need to say anymore. Thank you. SPRINGER:Thank you. Commissioners, any questions for Dr. Schulz? Commissioner Graham? B. GRAHAM:Dr. Schulz, youre concerned about the health effects being down- wind from this. Do you have any suggestions as to anything that this Applicant could do if he would operate a quarry, but in a responsible way, so that it would diminish any kind of health problems that would come your direction? SCHULZ:On such a short distance, I cannot see, I mean, any possibilities of getting around this pollution. I cannot, its too close. Its a couple of miles. 4