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ALAMEDA:Sorry. We’ve got to get a little bit more formal on this one. So, <br />Commissioner Siracusa, are you asking the question to the Applicants or –? <br />SIRACUSA:If the Applicant knows the answer, then I’m asking the question of the <br />Applicant. <br />CARROLL:There’s not a, no, there’s no provision for licensing. They come before <br />this Commission to get really permission to operate on this island. It seems like none of the <br />other islands have such a certification that I’m aware of; but I do know the Department of Health <br />has various departments within, you know, sub-departments that look at air quality, and stench, <br />and whatever. I mean, they’re all divided up with obligation to check this type of operation. But <br />I don’t think there’s any separate certification required for a crematory. <br />SIRACUSA:Okay. I’m just asking that because Mr. Raggett had mentioned all these <br />different oversight agencies within the State of California and his assumption was, in his <br />testimony, that we have equivalent oversight. And, so, I was just trying to check that out. <br />My other question is -. <br />CARROLL:Mr. Chairman, may I comment on that before she goes to her next <br />question? <br />SIRACUSA:Yes, go on. <br />CARROLL:The reason that he said that, ma’am, was not to suggest that we should <br />have it here. He’s suggesting that their operations are so carefully and critically controlled that <br />all of those various agencies have to be satisfied in California. That standard would be applied <br />here even if nobody is looking at it.That was the thrust of his comment. <br />SIRACUSA:Well, I should certainly hope so. But he was assuming. He said, “and I’m <br />sure Hawaii has those same standards.” So I was just trying to check up on that statement as to <br />whether it was just his wishful kind of statement or if he really knew what he was talking about <br />and we do have those kind of oversight. <br />ALAMEDA:Okay. <br />SIRACUSA:My other question has to do with, he talked, towards the bottom of Page 9, <br />about problems when they’re cremating obese cases; and we certainly have a lot of obese people <br />here in our State. And so I’m wondering what special types of precautions would have to be <br />taken by the operators of a crematorium to keep the crematorium from having to be shut down <br />because, or having an upset cremation per se. <br />CARROLL:I’m not planning to die real soon but I’ll let her answer that. <br />ALAMEDA:Ma’am? <br />EXHIBIT A <br />9 <br /> <br />