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MOSES: Thank you. Please state your name and the area you reside in. Speak clearly in the <br />microphone. Thank you. <br /> <br />RAZNOV: Good morning again, Commission, Madam Chair. Jill Raznov, representative for <br />HOVE RMC; Laura Foster to my left who’s the Chief Operating Officer. <br /> <br />FOSTER: And you’re from-- <br /> <br />RAZNOV: Oh, excuse me, I’m from Orchidland, and I work in Hilo. <br /> <br />FOSTER: Good morning. I’m Laura Foster. I reside in Ocean View, Hawai‛i. <br /> <br />SELF: Deputy Corporation Counsel representing the Planning Director who is seated to my left, <br />Duane Kanuha. <br /> <br />MOSES: Thank you. <br /> <br />RAZNOV: Thank you once again. We, HOVE RMC, basically argues or puts forward the same <br />arguments that we made in our earlier petition for standing—that our interests are clearly <br />distinguishable from that of the general public. We have a property interest in the lands affected <br />by the activities. The action will cause HOVE RMC actual or threatened harm, impact, if not <br />properly mitigated. Once again, I don’t want to repeat myself too much, but just to remind you <br />HOVE Road Maintenance Corp. is tasked with repairing and maintaining this private road <br />system. <br /> <br />You know, just to point out, Mr. Rodrigues states that he’s been out of business. We empathize <br />with that. We are not, we don’t try to put anyone out of business, but we did not, HOVE did not, <br />shut Mr. Rodrigues down. He was shut down by the Department because he was operating <br />illegally without permits. The case has been made that HOVE RMC has assessment powers to <br />repair the roads. While that is true, we have no power to come in and dictate how the <br />stabilization on the quarry sites is going to be done regarding setbacks, how the applicants repair <br />or if they repair their driveways to minimum standards so that gravel and other debris is not <br />kicked up onto the road so that if HOVE goes in and maintains and repairs those roads, that those <br />roads are not further degraded. We don’t have power to do that. We don’t have power to <br />determine how many trucks they haul on the roads and at the intersections where they make their <br />turns and further disintegrate the intersections. And, these activities cause injury to these roads <br />and threaten to do so. <br /> <br />Basically, we’re just saying that without these conditions to maintain to comply for stabilization <br />for mitigation, remediation, this is un--, presents—these activities present an unsafe situation, <br />liability concerns and also for ensuring a proper control after these, after the applicants are, <br />leave—after they cease these activities. So, once again, we say that this, these interests are met, <br />and the standard is met. Thank you. <br /> <br />MOSES: Thank you. Laura, are you going to say anything? <br /> <br />5 <br />EXHIBIT C <br /> <br /> <br />