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CRITTENDEN:Sure. FUJIKAWA:Okay. Thank you. The Applicants, please stand forward guess thereÓs no one from the general public who wanted to testify. Okay. Any of you testifiers, do you have any comments, any questions? FUKE:No, I think that would, weÓre just waiting for what the Planning Director may have so they can respond to them. FUJIKAWA:Okay. Commissioners, none? Go ahead, Planning Director. YUEN:I just had some questions about and the possible use of the American Tower that was approved by the Commission in Laupahoehoe; and as I refer back to the site map, itÓs either that large red dot or the small blue dot. I think it is the blue dot, okay. ItÓs the blue dot on the map; and if you see their proposed towers off on the dot on the far right, itÓs about a mile-and-a-half away. When we had the application from American Tower, they provided us with whatÓs called a propagation exhibit. And their propagation exhibit said that that tower would provide coverage as far as Ookala, in that direction. Ookala is about the, is about at the 30-mile marker, and then it would provide coverage about, between Laupahoehoe and Malua Gulch in the Hilo direction, about to the 23-mile marker. And I was asking the Applicant for their propagation exhibit to try to understand what the problem would be using the American Tower. When American Tower applied for that, they did say that Nextel had expressed an interest in using that tower, so thatÓs my question on this. FUJIKAWA:Mr. Jaeger, can you answer this to the question of the Director? JAEGER:Yes, Chairman. Chris, Mr. Planning Director, sir, the tower that has been permitted for American Tower is outside of what we cons search ring. If you remember, one of the criteria that we used is to try to fill existing holes within the Nextel network. And, in this particular case, the area to the north of Laupahoehoe Gulch is what we consider to be our prime target area for our tower site location. We did look at the American Tower location and we did a propagation analysis on the location. We thought that, we knew that it was about 2.5 miles location and it was at about eight mile off of the highway and there was existing vegetation there which would, we felt hindered the propagation characteristics from that location. And thatÓs why we thought that it was not optimum for us to pursue that particular site. YUEN:With reference, where is your Paauilo tower site? JAEGER:ItÓs on top, itÓs right in Paauilo town, and itÓs right on top of an apartment building there Òcause itÓs a low height site. 16