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be working that process and as soon as we get approval, assuming we do that, then we can <br />move forward with, you know, local partner coordination and outreach and maintain that tight <br />coordination with Hawaii County. So all that to say is that we don’t have anything like that we’re <br />coming forth with, yeah, we’re still working out internal, sort of processes and whatnot to get <br />approval to really do something at Laupahoehoe and it’s, definitely high focus of our leadership <br />because, I mean, they’ve been out there, they know the issues with limited sort of access along <br />the coastline and they’d like to see something happen, so… Definitely have the support of our <br />agency, so with that, what sort of questions may I have drummed up for ya? <br /> <br />RD: Yeah, Ben, I have a question. Robert Duerr, District – 1. I know that when they did the extension <br />of the Hilo Harbor that coral was impacted and they had a mitigation plan. Is it possible to <br />mitigate this coral instead of replacing – what’s your thoughts on that. <br /> <br />BR: Yeah, I’m not an environmental guru but we would – at this time we’re running the design <br />process – we nearly, you know, we’re like all right let’s explore this and what’s it gonna cost. We <br />haven’t gone down the route of environmental coordination with the agencies and really nail <br />this down so I don’t know is the answer to your question but we do have to consider relocation <br />given that – I think actually initial coordination with US Fish & Wildlife may have like desired that <br />but we’ll explore all for sure. <br /> <br />RD: Ah, Ben, Robert Duerr again. Some of the ideas were coming from the community with some of <br />the people had construction background were saying that the best option was to do a basin – <br />similar to Honokohau. Is that a possibility of going instead of going into coral ecosystems to go <br />into land and build a basin? <br /> <br />BR: I don’t understand what you mean by that one, sorry about that, perhaps Nani does but I don’t <br />understand… <br /> <br />RD: \[Unclear\] go ahead. <br /> <br />NS: Robert my name is Nani Shimabuku, I’m the Operation Maintenance Program Manager <br />overseeing all of our completed works, including Laupahoehoe, Hilo Harbor, Kawaihae and <br />what not and so when the – what we’re looking at right now – the type of project that we’re <br />doing right now is being covered under Operation – under the O & M Program and so we are <br />only authorized to do repairs on the project and to step back a little bit, when the project was <br />originally built it was never intended, or, I guess, um, you know I wasn’t around way back then <br />but my understanding is that it was never intended to function 100%. I believe it was built to <br />function 60-70% of the time and I guess what we’re trying to do now is to bring it back at least <br />to that level. We cannot do any sort of new work and that’s why Ben was talking about seeing <br />this particular picture of working within the project foot print, it’s merely a repair and to try to <br />get it back to where it originally was. We have, I guess if we were to go further along, um, we <br />could do, we would have to do a new start – a new study – to look at any sort of modifications <br />that would go beyond what we consider to be a repair. But those ideas that you have for that – <br />you said that others with past experience, if we were kick it off and go to, do a new start, then, <br />we would certainly welcome those ideas for us to, you know, take into consideration. <br /> <br />RD: Nani could you – Nani – Robert Duerr – could you briefly walk us through time table and dollar <br />figures for doing a new start. <br />12 <br /> <br /> <br />