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GRAHAM:Sidney, I had just a couple of brief things. One is with the report from Tom Nance on groundwater. It’s sort of brief, and I would like to note to the other Commissioners so many of these background reports like this are very difficult reading. But I always find Mr. Nance’s reports pretty easy to go through because they’re written in a very normal tone. However, in his Page 1 down in the section called “Domestic Wastewater Generation and Disposal” -. FUKE:This is on Tom Nance’s report or the -? GRAHAM:Yeah, that’s one of the appendices. FUKE:Okay. Go ahead. GRAHAM:It may be that I’m out to lunch on this one but he speaks of, says, “Wastewater collection, treatment, and disposal will be handled by the County’s existing sewage conveyance system and treatment at the County’s wastewater treatment plant on the north side of Keauhou Bay.” And “The treated effluent is and will continue to be reused to irrigate the Kona Country Club.” My sense was that the County system all runs north and winds up getting injected, you know, mauka of the harbor. And the Kamehameha Investments section is what deals with the Kona Country Club, and so this was all going in the County system and going north. But does the County actually have another system down there I wasn’t aware of? FUKE:I don’t know whether Mr. Emler can answer that question. But the point still is that, and I don’t know where the separation, you know, line is in terms of servicing line, whether the area would be serviced by the Heeia Wastewater Treatment Plant at Keauhou versus the Kealakehe one, I don’t have an answer to that question. I think what, you know, yeah, that could be. I don’t know, I don’t know to answer that question. The fact, however, remains that it’ll be hooked up to the County system. GRAHAM:Okay. And then the second question I had is more of a background thing. I know that we often deal with like public rights and public access based on this Highways Act of 1892, I think it is, which sort of says if, you know, the public was using and it exists on a map at that time as a public right-of-way that that perpetually is available to the public. So we do have this trail you speak of in this application; and apparently it doesn’t qualify in that sense and all. And I was just wondering for a little background from you perhaps and especially with your history as Planning Director, where’s the demarcation line of whether that actually comes into play and, you know, requires kind of a public access and ownership perhaps of a trail that has been in existence for a long time? FUKE:I think it’s a legal question that I would just as soon defer to your counsel. But we do have, you know, relative to the archaeological cultural aspects to that, you know, Dr. Hahn is here. So, you know, he may be able to address some of that, that component of the question. GRAHAM:Maybe shall I just direct it to Mr. Torigoe at the moment just to get it cleared up? ALAMEDA:Sure. Mr. Torigoe? EXHIBIT B 9