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wives or children out there making the noise during the day, all living under their management of
<br />the plantation and under their rule. This changed quite differently, but there is still a very vibrant
<br />community. And, I pray that one day that it can become vibrant as the days that you had
<br />discussed. But, in order for that to happen, I believe there needs to be pono. There needs to,
<br />they need to make it right. If there is to be a power plant in the middle of a vibrant community,
<br />there should be some rules and regulations that they must follow; otherwise, you will kill a
<br />community. And, I haven't been here as long as the others, but I do know that I live amongst a
<br />community that's very, very loving of this island. They are contributors to our economy, they
<br />have beautified areas that are just, they've taken, they've taken things and they've turned it
<br />around, and it's beautiful. I just, I live probably the second closest to the plant other than
<br />Gonzalez, and I hear them constantly. I'm concerned that it's not specific, daylight hours. So
<br />when, so the people get there before the day begins, they make their noise and get ready, and
<br />then when the daylight finishes, then they leave. That's kind of not very specific. That's a lot of
<br />hours. That's more than half a day I would assume. But, the noises there, I don't know what the
<br />dBAs are because I don't have a meter, but I know I hear it every day. It wakes me up. I know
<br />that it's annoying. I know that it ruins the serenity of the area, and I also know that if we are to
<br />have a vibrant community once again in Pepe`ekeo, we need to be pono with that. People are not
<br />going to move there or stay there with this kind of noise. Thank you.
<br />TRASK: Thank you, Commissioners. Matt Trask again, a resident of Pepe`ekeo. I wish I could
<br />say I was born and raised here because it is just the most beautiful place I've ever been to. I am
<br />a sound and vibration analysis technician and environmental scientist. I got my training in the
<br />U.S. Navy. My father was in the military as well, so neither one of us had that luxury of living
<br />in the same place our whole lives. But, I feel that I need to defend this place as well, as any
<br />place I've ever been. With that, I want to lighten it up right now a little bit. I really do
<br />appreciate your folks' effort here, and I really do appreciate how Commissioners, and especially
<br />probably the staff, are constantly in the middle of these kind of conflicts, and we've always said
<br />that you know you're doing your job right when everybody is mad at you, right? So, and one
<br />other thing about the one percent, well, we've always joked in the noise industry that you could
<br />fire a gun off outside your window at night while you were sleeping, and you're not going to
<br />pass the one percent, but you're not going to sleep very well, either.
<br />I just want to comment on, I have worked with many power plant projects, and none of them had
<br />less restrictive noise operations as what you have proposed here. And, that's in many states and
<br />many countries. Even in Africa where I worked, they didn't allow noise, what, what's being
<br />proposed here. And, what I would suggest, just from my experience, is to require a noise model,
<br />or noise monitoring, a simple stationary noise monitor at the property line just to give real
<br />analysis showing what the noise level is. If they, if you have an exceedance, and there is an
<br />emergency, you know, that's all information, that would be good for you to, you know,
<br />determine what if anything to do in the future. And, that's the other part of it, almost every
<br />power plant project I've worked on, you have a formal noise complaint process where if
<br />somebody files a complaint, somebody must address that complaint within a certain amount of
<br />time, and that you also have a process for again looking at these issues. If it turns out that we're
<br />having these non -normal power plant operations all the time, something needs to be done. I've
<br />specifically worked on a project like that in the Geysers geothermal area in California. Those
<br />safety relief valves are lifting all the time, many times a night, and those things going off like a
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