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and removal of coal ash, this solid waste management permit shall be revoked. The date of ` revocation will be on the same date that the zoning clearing from the County of Hawaii Planning Department is rescinded. The Zoning Code requires that a special permit be held and the public is to participate. I've been waiting for three years now, and my warning to you is that if this subdivision keeps going forward and you create 92 lots around -, and they're able to make a smaller lot and isolate that coal ash, then they'll -, when do we get to talk about it, you know? After it's too late, all the parcels are sold, the public doesn't even know about it. And on what authority does the Planning Director have to issue temporary zoning clearance? I thought that the public had a right to a hearing. I've been asking for it for over two years. It's a lot -, you know, this has been going on -, if you look at SMA 221, which involves the area that we're looking at today. If you read the testimony from that hearing, you'll see that they -, nobody wanted them to bring coal. They -, everyone was ` concerned about the coal ash. The County of Hawaii was promised that they would recycle that coal ash and properly dispose of it. They have written letters in on a yearly basis saying that they have done so. It turns out that they haven't recycled any of it until last year maybe they started recycling some of it. But the majority of it is still there, probably 70,000 cubic yards. They say that the capacity is 20,000 cubic yards. They didn't even get a permit to place it there. It's been subject of EPA clean water violations, and we're supposed to allow a 92-lot subdivision to continue forward without any assurances that that lot won't be created around the coal ash pile then abandoned. I am sorry, but there's no easement documents. That's not consistent with the law. There's no special permit. That should have come before this hearing. That one should have been heard first. Okay. I'll quit with that. The other thing I'd like to mention is in the testimony that Steven Lim gave last meeting, he mentioned that out in front of the Mill Road entry it was, he said it was like a raceway where people are trying to pass each other on the road because that's the place where you have two lanes and can pass. And those were his words, like a raceway. It's in the public document. I'd just like to remind you to read the request of the Highways Department, State Highways Department for a traffic study. And with that statement in mind, and then also I hope that you ` won't forget that there was the mentioning that the Pepeekeo Association agreement would become legalized. I'm still concerned with the rest of us, and I'm still concerned that people ` have a chance to realize that we were counting on the Pepeekeo Association to take care of the public's interest. I'm going to give you the fishing agreement, and ask that you don't look at vehicular traffic down to the ocean, but you consider whether we should have the right to walk down to the ocean in the same places. And if you think it's beyond the scope of this SMA, I think that's debatable, because I have been told that if there is something that can affect something else, 14