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IWASHITA: Okay, yeah, because -. WATANABE: Does that kind of satisfy you? IWASHITA: Part of my concern, what I was trying to clarify is at the bottom of this way, right, it basically looks like the material was cut out and then used to create part of that road at the bottom, you know, because of the grade that was there before; it sure looks like, you know, right at the bottom there is about, I don’t know, six, eight, ten feet on the makai side that’s been built up to make this roadway, right? So -. FERNANDEZ: No, no, that’s, I’m very familiar with what happened here, and mainly it was just cuts. There were no fills; he didn’t have to perform any fills. IWASHITA: Okay. It’s just because it looks like there is a big drop-off now on the mauka side to the makai side, right? Okay, so you are saying that was just cut out. And what you want is basically trees planted back in that area. FERNANDEZ: If I can, I’ll try real quick. The road that comes down from his house, when he decided to make the cut directly towards Pahoa Beach, it was just a cliff side, he just made a cut; there were no fills, he went this way, and he zigzagged towards the beach. IWASHITA: Okay, but the last point I wanted to clarify is you want basically trees and other vegetation planted back along this roadway, so that it looks like, put back to what it looked like before. FERNANDEZ: Correct. IWASHITA: Thank you. WATANABE: Okay. Mr. Director, you wanted to make some comments? YUEN: Yes, I just, and I know this can get confusing for the Commission, but I just wanted to clear up one point that the big cut that you see in Exhibit A-2 that leads from the house going down into the gulch is the first violation; we are not dealing with that cut today as part of this permit. Then the part of the picture that goes from the bottom of that big cut to the beach is part of actually both the first violation and the second violation. Okay, is that clear? There was a first violation where he made a cut going down the gulch from where this house is shown and going somewhat in a mauka direction down into the gulch, then in a makai direction to the beach, okay, that was the first cut. And then a second violation is from where these two cuts, if you look at Exhibit B-2, where these two cuts join, and goes up mauka to the cul-de-sac, and there was also some work done at the lower part of this B-2 as a second violation. I just want that to be clear. So the cut on Exhibit B-2, we dealt with as a violation and did not require an after-the-fact permit for that. WATANABE: Okay. But that’s said, Mr. Yuen, is there any way to address Mr. Fernandez’s concern with regard to the area of the first cut within conditions in this SMA such EXHIBIT B 15