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So, the gentleman said, you know, people are two miles away or whatever, you can hear it at a
<br />half -mile away. I know you look down right on and you can see the cranes. But, you know, like
<br />I said, you've got, it's more than just cows. Right in the part of the map that's green, there's
<br />houses out there. There's people living out there; there's elderlies; there's babies. Some of my
<br />neighbors can't make it today because they have animals; they have the babies. My wife is not
<br />here today. She's helping a neighbor corral some bulls and cows that are loose on Sugar Mill
<br />Road right now. But, I just know the impact has changed our lives. The jake brakes are the
<br />worst, so I hope they don't try to amend those rules down the road. They keep changing the
<br />rules. I'm a former member of two unions. I've been in two bargaining teams, and that's why
<br />you have contracts. We have agreements. You can see what they are doing to us under the
<br />agreements. So watch your contracts. Just be wary of what they try to pull on you guys `cause
<br />they're pulling it on us, so. Thank you very much.
<br />ROHR: My name is Claudia Rohr. I agree, it's very noisy. They can turn down those signals
<br />on the trucks, the ones where they back up. Once people complained about them, they adjusted
<br />them, they turned them down to a lower volume. If you give them permission in advance to
<br />violate this condition that was agreed upon by a different Planning Commission, they have no
<br />motivation for turning things down, staying under the sound limit. "At all times," Merriam -
<br />Webster dictionary definition of "at all times": without stopping or changing, at all times,
<br />always, continuously without interruption, at all times. Interpreting, re -interpreting "at all times"
<br />at this late date is basically saying you have no respect for the process that was went through.
<br />There was days and days and days of testimony, and the intervenors got certain conditions in that
<br />permit. And, to say that that can be reinterpreted now, "at all times," continuously without
<br />interruption, can now be reinterpreted by a declaratory ruling? I don't think so. If they want to
<br />change the condition of their permits, they have to come back with a new application and ask for
<br />it. Thank you.
<br />JOHNSON: Hi again. Steve Johnson, Pepe`ekeo Point. I'm one of those fortunate people that
<br />live in such a beautiful place. I moved here for peace and quiet comfort. I might not look like it,
<br />but I've got a morphine pump in me, so I live in a lot of chronic pain, rather very close to the
<br />power plant. I was in construction my whole life, and I owned a lot of big equipment that
<br />backed up and made noise. But, I live in a neighborhood, even on Sundays they are out there
<br />sometimes, but I cannot go out in my yard without listening to banging, clanging, beep -beep -
<br />beep -beep, seven days a week constantly. We've had equipment out there, this stuff is rattling
<br />like 70 dBA at my neighbor's yard, which is right next to mine. I mean it's just, they are not
<br />trying now to work with us as neighbors. They're doing whatever they want. You know, I was
<br />in construction. I lived in a forest before I moved here, and the forest service used to do
<br />chipping. I know this is stepping out a little further, but next door to me about a year ago, they
<br />brought in some chippers to chip some trees, and I drove around the other side of the power plant
<br />and, to listen to how loud those chippers were, and they were screaming loud. I don't know how
<br />they are going to sit out there and chip a bunch of wood, and all these pieces of equipment
<br />backing up in their—in the grounds there, their Lift -Alis and their dump trucks and everything, I
<br />don't know how they're going to do all that inside of a building. That noise radiates all over our
<br />community. Depends on which way the winds blow, and it can be worse. They could turn down
<br />those, all that noise -making equipment, because I had it on my own equipment. I worked in
<br />neighborhoods. There were high-end custom homes and buildings and hospitals, and we turned
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