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<br />ARAI: I don’t, I think that question and I’m sorry I’m--it appears I’m punting, I do believe that
<br />question has to go to the Office of the Mayor. They, they’re introducing the specific claims that
<br />are directly linked to the recommendations that were prescribed within the geothermal health, or
<br />public health assessment study. Now, anyway, maybe I should—we do have representatives of
<br />the Mayor’s office here so maybe that question could be directed--
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<br />HENKEL: Well, a point of order, from the information I have, we can’t amend any of this. All
<br />we can do is approve or disapprove the individual items on here and there isn’t anything on here
<br />for a comprehensive health study. A, one suggestion was to get rid of the meta-analysis. If we
<br />did that, what’s to say that, that money would be put, you know, to another use. Is that right? I
<br />mean, you know, we can’t do anything except approve or disapprove these four things.
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<br />ARAI: Correct. Just to clarify, anyone can submit a claim and the, to utilize the funds from the
<br />geothermal asset fund, so if someone feels that a comprehensive health study is something that
<br />should be funded now, then the reasons, the documentations and supporting analysis, on why
<br />that claim should be funded, can be provided and it would be considered in the same way we’ve
<br />considered the four separate claims filed with, by the Mayor, by the Mayor’s office. So, it can be
<br />done but it doesn’t only have to be the Office of the Mayor that submits it. It can be anyone
<br />from the public as well.
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<br />HENKEL: Mr. Arai, you know, the problem is that this should have been done thirty years ago
<br />because there needs to be a baseline, you know, to see how it’s affecting the health, and these are
<br />all important things, but I feel that the comprehensive health study is above even those.
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<br />ARAI: And I can’t argue with that but also, again, what is being offered now by the Office of
<br />the Mayor could be leading up to eventual comprehensive health study because, you know, some
<br />of what’s being asked for is to implement various aspects of the recommendations. Things like
<br />better monitoring, that’s the air quality monitoring. Checking to see if there’s any concerns
<br />regarding the brine ponds at HGP-A. All of that are things that I feel could be part of a
<br />comprehensive health study. So, anyway, I’m not necessarily the expert, and someone from the
<br />Mayor’s office I think should probably chime in at this point, but I hope you see where I’m
<br />going with this. You could do the broad study now but it may be still be all inclusive of all these
<br />things that the Mayor’s office has recommended be implemented. So, I believe it’s all, anyway.
<br />I’ll stop there.
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<br />HENKEL: I’d like to hear a response from the Mayor’s office. Thank you.
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<br />ARAI: We do have someone, if a representative from the Mayor’s office could come up, I could
<br />turn over the podium to them.
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<br />ISHIBASHI: Ok, any questions for the testifiers, Commissioners? Ok, you may be seated.
<br />Thank you so much for coming. And this is by no means the end of this, this funding of studies,
<br />by no means, I know that.
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<br />So--hi, you can sit down or you guys can go up. Up to you, Jeff.
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