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Paradise Helicopters Special Permit Application • Reporting requirements for fee payments * Adaptive Management • Pilot Education In terms of schedule, 2011 will be occupied with the public review of draft alternatives (accomplished) and revision of these draft alternatives (in process). An impacts analysis to be conducted in 2012 will be included in a Draft EIS. In addition to the ATMP, this application has reviewed the General Plan and Puna Community Development Plan (PCDP) for references to noise. In Section 4, Environmental Quality, the General Plan states that: "Loud noises are known to have adverse physiological and psychological effects on people. Noise that is loud or out of character, especially from low flying aircraft, is critically disturbing to residents." Both the General Plan and the PCDP are silent on the issue of helicopters per se, but the General Plan notes in Environmental Standards 4.4(a) in a reference to pollution that may be broadly construed to include noise pollution that : "Pollution shall be prevented, abated, and controlled at levels that will protect and preserve the public health and well being, through the enforcement of appropriate Federal, State and County standards." IIn the PCDP, it is stated in Goal 2. 1. 1 m related to Historic, Cultural and Scenic resources, that: "Tourism in Puna is compatible with historic and natural resources and not intrusive into the area's communities." 18