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Secondly, today we have Mr. Newton Inouye from the Department of Health to provide testimony on behalf of the issue regarding the radio tower. If, at this time I’d request that Mr. Inouye be brought up to the table. WOODWARD: Very good. Mr. Inouye? All right, if I can swear you in. If you’ll raise your right hand. Do you swear or affirm to tell the truth today before the Windward Planning Commission? INOUYE: Yes. WOODWARD: Very good. If you can give us your name and address, and then you’re free to begin your testimony. INOUYE: Okay, good morning. My name is Newton Inouye. My address is 1582 Kamehameha Avenue and I’m the acting District Environmental Health Program Chief for the Department of Health, State of Hawaii. I’m here representing the Indoor Air and Radiological Health Branch of the Department of Health. Russell Takata who is the branch chief - this branch is on Oahu, they don’t have any staff here - him and his supervisor Jeff Eckerd apparently were not able to come to this meeting. They are on the mainland for business. So I will present their testimony but I am not the expert. Okay. And I think we already sent comments to you folks already; and this is in addition to those comments that I sent to the Planning Department. Although there are many research studies on this subject, you know, electro-magnetic radiation, a casual relationship between electro-magnetic field exposure and long-term health effects has not been proven. Therefore, there is no mandated international or national public health exposure standards for electro-magnetic field exposures. That’s all I have. WOODWARD: Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Inouye? Did you have a question, Commissioner Domingo? DOMINGO: I’d just like to make a comment. It’s not in regards to, specifically towards Mr. Inouye’s presentation but, and he reflects upon studies which, which is against the presentation made this morning. And I just want to say that, you know, I worked for the Honokaa Sugar Company before and there were studies also, environmental studies, and environmental steps taken to make sure that the herbicides used, the spraying used, and the emission from the mill’s smokestack were controlled. And it met, I assumed it met EPA standards and everything. But you know what, when a member of my family contracted cancer and then thereafter, you know, two of my classmates they contracted cancer, the question, you know, the question just came out of this doctor’s mind, and he was thinking loudly, he said why is there so much cancer being detected among people who live in Hamakua? And, you know, obviously, we had a number sugar factories along the coast and through modernization the plantations used herbicides to control the growth of the weeds and everything to take care and to make sure that they have adequate growth in the sugarcane thereby increasing tonnage and more sugar. You know, all of this has been based on studies made that there was no detrimental 15 EXHIBIT A