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FUJIKAWA:State your name and address, please? CRITTENDEN:Charles Crittenden. IÓm at 17-337 Volcano Highway. FUJIKAWA:You may proceed. CRITTENDEN:You know, I just had a question. IÓm actually here on the next thing thatÓs on the agenda which is right across the street from my property. But when I was here, you know, IÓve seen these towers coming up all over the island and especially the ones that are recently, that came up down south. And the communities around it and, you know, they had a big uproar about it after they put it in. I think a lot of the people, you know, wasnÓt heard. And I donÓt know about this particular tower in the area that itÓs in. But one of my, I was a paramedic in the United States Air Force and thereÓs a lot of, where I grew up thereÓs Dow Chemical Company, and the automobile thereÓs a lot of people that are right around that direct area that had a lot of medical problems that came up later, such as cancer and stuff like that. You know, do you guys do surveys to see if thereÓs any kind of medical impact, you know, on anybody thatÓs directly around these towers besides the visual impacts? FUJIKAWA:Maybe the Applicant can answer the question. Mr. Jaeger? JAEGER:Commissioners, we do studies. We operate under the guidelines of the Federal Communications Commission and also under the RF comp emissions, which is OET-65 of the FCC guidelines. And we operate a low-powered cellular telephone transmission facility. The effective radiated power of these towers is 100 watts, which is similar to, say, an average light bulb. So itÓs very low-powered. And in the case of 80 feet, weÓre categorically exempt from any sort of safety issues regarding that facility. FUJIKAWA:Does that answer your question? CRITTENDEN:Yes, sir. It does. FUJIKAWA:Any other questions that you have? CRITTENDEN:Yeah, my other question is, is there any kind of, do you guys have a limitation on how many towers youÓre going to allow on the Big Island or is it just kind of like if they keep applying, you just kind of keep -? FUJIKAWA:I would let the Planning Director, Mr. Yuen, answer that. YUEN:We donÓt have an overall limitation, no. And at the moment, we are going to keep dealing with the applications on a case-by-case basis. We would rather do it more comprehensively but we havenÓt been able to. As I mentioned a little earlier, we would really need to get funding for a consulting contract in order for the Planning Department to do that. 15