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MIYASATO: Excuse me, but could we call up back Verizon to have any comments on the <br />testimony? <br />HENKEL: Okay. Verizon, would you like to come up and respond to the testimony you've <br />heard? <br />SUNG: Thank you. <br />HENKEL: I don't think I need to re -swear them in, right? <br />HALL: No. <br />HENKEL: Okay. Just state your name again, please, for the record. <br />SUNG: Sure. Steve Sung with Wireless Resources on behalf of Verizon Wireless. Yeah, I do <br />want to actually reply to a couple issues that was brought up. <br />As far as the—Department of Fish & Wildlife provided their recommendation on the, on these <br />couple issues that was brought up from one of the public. We will follow strict guidelines from <br />as far as how we build the site, when we build the site, with, I guess five possible—bear with me <br />here, I'll just pull that—on Hawaiian Hoary bat, Hawaiian hawk, and couple other species that <br />they have. They, it was never required, a bird study per se, but they do have conditions they <br />want us to follow, and Verizon will absolutely follow those conditions. <br />SHAFFER: In relation to the cave, we also had <br />HALL: Sorry, can you state your name? <br />SHAFFER: Oh, this is Corey Shaffer with Verizon Wireless. <br />HALL: Thank you. <br />SHAFFER: We have the, the letter from State. Sorry, I want to get the right name of the—it's a <br />Ph.D. from the State who basically did the analysis on the existing lava tubes and basically <br />saidI saw reference to that in some of the contested information—and said that it was not in <br />effect. So, we're not experts on Hawaiian history or the existence of lava tubes, but we did <br />follow the process to submit that information to the State, and they came back and basically said <br />that this site was okay. There were no known remains and that the lava tubes were far enough <br />away. So, that, that issue—and then related to the health effects, I know people are scared of <br />towers, but we do have towers all over. People live, you know, on the top floor of residential <br />buildings on this island and every island in the State within five or ten feet of these antennas, and <br />the fact that this is a 160 -foot tower, the exposure levels that you will experience on the ground <br />are actually lower than you would experience from your own phone, and that's because the <br />energy from a signal decays very quickly, one over the square of the distance from the <br />EXHIBIT A <br />10 <br />