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The other thing I want to thank Stanford Carr for is the provision of the escape route. You know, Puako has suffered from some serious forest fires in the keawe forest, and the more ways we can get out that community, the better. And we appreciate the offer and the establishment of this new escape route. So that’s good news for us. You know, I think the issue of maintenance may not be that big of a deal because the escape route would be gated, only used in emergencies, as I understand it, so there probably would be very little maintenance required, but you folks may want to take a look at that and place a maintenance requirement on the developer in a long term because at some point it may need some maintenance. Thank you. WATANABE: Do we have any questions for Mr. Robertson? Seeing none, I have one comment, Mr. Robertson. You mentioned injection wells and effluent being pumped into injections wells. Actually that is addressed in the CDP that is coming up for, actually your community is part of that, the South Kohala CDP; they do address water quality that’s been injected into those. ROBERTSON: Yeah, I sit on that Steering Committee. And we have put a provision in that Plan that injection wells be prohibited -. WATANABE: It was R-1, but I don’t know if it’ll go through as R-1 -. ROBERTSON: Correct. WATANABE: But this is being addressed in that. ROBERTSON: That’s right. And we are recommending -. WATANABE: I just wanted to point that out. ROBERTSON: Correct. Yeah, we are recommending the water be treated to R-1 level, if it is injected. But in this case, I don’t think that we can stop these wells because it may be that they are in operation before the Plan takes effect – I’m not sure. Thank you. WATANABE: Okay, thank you. Ms. Wille. WILLE: Margaret Wille. My family has lived in Puako. I do not, I live in Waimea. I’m on the South Kohala Steering Committee, but I’m testifying just as a member of the public. And I really just want to raise some questions that I had after reading over the material and listening to the presentation. One, a lot of times you’ve asked questions about, are things being worked out in contracts and with the other groups. And I would just like to encourage as much as possible whatever you do require that you actually put it into your approval, so that it’s also there for the public to know, such as recommending providing an emergency evacuation route that can be limited to significant emergencies. Kohala Ranch does that; when the police contact them, they allow public access. But I think really this has been such a really terrible problem in this area that if there could be something in there, what you write, if they come back and say we can’t do this, EXHIBIT C 13