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SPRINGER:Thank you, Mr. Soares. Commissioners, you have any questions for the testifier? Mr. Planning Director, I have a question for you following Mr. Soares comments. We have a May 25, 2004 letter from the State Land Use Commission Executive Officer, Anthony Ching, and he poses some questions. Among them, what is the status of the 25 acres that was abandoned in 1992, and how does, as Mr. Soares queried, the site of the quarry that functioned for those 20 years before the population became as dense there as it is now, how did that factor into your recommendation, for changes in population density, for example? YUEN:Well, the Discovery Harbor Subdivision was there during the period of time of this previous quarry operation. There are certainly more homes in Discovery Harbor than there were -. I have to say that Discovery Harbor did not play a great role in our thoughts about this application being a good two miles distant. So, frankly, Discovery Harbor is quite a ways away from this quarry site. SPRINGER:I mean, Mr. Yuen, also, on that transmittal, theres a question as to whetherallthetemporarysupportfacilitiesandequipmentweremovedfromtheareaand the land graded to blend in the surrounding area as required. YUEN:That I dont know. SPRINGER:Okay. So Ill ask that of the Applicants representative. YUEN:Yes. SPRINGER:Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Soares. SOARES:Could I address a small bit of -. In your asking about returning the land to similar terrains and stuff, so do we have a protocol for these kinds of practices for anybody to inspect whether or not theyre following up on those kinds of recommendations? Do you folks have a protocol like that? From the County to follow up, you having a terracing system for water, you know, runoff and stuff like that, you know, the quarry areas that were abandoned or in the future? SPRINGER:Yeah, the query that I was citing came from Tony Ching of the Land Use Commission, and the letter was addressed to Mr. Yuen . SOARES:In other words -. SPRINGER:And that was per condition of the previous application permit. SOARES:Okay, so hes, the gentleman from the State Land Use Commission inquiry asking whether or not terracing has been done and returning the land to its natural state, you dont know if that has been done, correct, Mr. Yuen? YUEN:I dont know. Norman, do we have any information that? 8