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GALDONES:Ms. Mendoza, I understand that you folks are meeting with the developers, the community. MENDOZA:That meeting is scheduled for Monday, 7:00, at the Kula` Community Center. GALDONES:Okay. Commissioners, any questions of Ms. Mendoza? Thank you very much. Mr. Lim. LIM:Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I guess in light of the fact that we have a request to continue the hearing, I'd probably defer any more comments so that you can move on with the other business, if that's okay. GALDONES:Okay. Commissioners, any question of Mr. Lim? Commissioner Graham. GRAHAM:I just want to address this to Mr. Lim and Mr. Yuen at the same time. I don't, I'm not well versed on the specifics, although I've heard in my reading about the coal ash situation. It does seem like the structural problem that Ms. Rohr brought forward about, which I interpreted to be like this. If one buys a large section of land, it may have some asset value a some liability value, and maybe the coal ash situation is a liability value within the large piece of land they bought. So then if they develop the portions of the land which are a asset to them, but neglect to do anything with the liability portion, and her feeling is that may be just kind of "and often forgotten in the long run," that doesn't feel like that's a proper process. And whether legally that's the way it has to be, I don't know. I know our Chairman Galdones felt that since it was not part of this particular application before us, it perhaps is not relevant. However, we're certainly looking at public access points along the ocean, which are also not part of this particular application but they are relevant to what we're discussing. So anyway, I would just like to put forward that I feel like I need a little more clarification about this ash area and whether it is being dealt with or whether it is really off the table as far as our concern at this time because it's not obviously so in my mind. GALDONES:Mr. Yuen. YUEN:I suppose a comment is that the landowner might walk away f pile by managing to segregate it into a smaller piece of property. The current, the coal ash pile is currently part of a lot that's roughly 800 acres in size. If this, if these particular applications that you have went forward and were approved, the coal ash pile would still be a portion of a lot that is something like 750 acres in size, which is -, it is on a -, it will be on a parcel that is of substantial value in itself. So that, it's not -, these actions will not result in the coal ash pile say being on a separate lot that then everything else gets sold around it and leaving just the coal ash pile. GALDONES:Mr. Graham, Commissioner Graham. 17