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WOODWARD: To summarize. The message I got is that you think this is going to significantly affect your B&B business? ROHR: It is. WOODWARD: Okay, is there anything further that you wanted to say? ROHR: I am willing to just step into the contested case hearing. They want to me to say that I’m an environmental activist. But I’m just going to say this – it wasn’t by choice. I was an environmentalist. I witnessed the, I went and saw the files and saw that they were polluting. And they’re actually heat -, the last, HBEI actually heated up the ocean offshore. They measured that it was like several temperature, several degrees, centigrade different, in different stations. Two years, they didn’t sample two years. Out of five, two times they heated up the ocean, two times they didn’t take readings. So I don’t trust people anymore. Because I was forced to decide am I going to do the right thing and report them to the EPA? I didn’t want to do it. I’d have rather gone boggey boarding at the time. I was selling real estate. I knew it would affect my business, it did. But you have to ask yourself, can you do nothing? No, I’m sorry, I can’t do nothing. No matter what happens I can no longer do nothing, because I made a commitment. That’s who I am. But that’s not what you asked me. And so I got off. But, Elaine, I did that for you. Okay, what did you ask me? I’m sorry. WOODWARD: I, just summarize and if you had any –. ROHR: Oh, summarize. WOODWARD: Yeah. ROHR: Oh, summarize. Okay, summarize, you must give full meaning -. I mean you must consider all your rules. That’s case law. Your rules state that the first, that they can’t schedule the hearing until after the application is complete. There is, basically everything on the first page is summarizing your rules. But in here I would like you to some time read it. And this is my suggestion on how to resolve this: I think we should go into closed session and talk about resolving it amicably with a decision that you’re not making any decisions about the permit. And Hu Honua and I can decide what we want to do, whether we’re going to court on this or whether we’re going to decide now how to proceed. I think that I could proceed and just jump into the case as it is now. And -. Again, Elaine has been very generous to say, hey, we’ll try to consolidate our case. She has real concerns because she lives there. And my concerns are because I’m a -. But she does recreate there, too. That’s how we know each other. She’s a member of PASH and she, anyway -. Sierra Club hikes on those trails and people do use those trails. And there is one right there at the plant that I sat in hearings on for a year and a half; and we got one more public access, which is the vehicular access to Iron Pin. And the parking lot is right there where the trucks are going by; and they did not put that on their plan. They didn’t put Lono Kaheo’s Stream on their plan. There’s a stream, maybe 500 feet away from, or less, maybe 50 feet away from their property line. 12 EXHIBITC