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Mr. Araujo asked if the County bought the parcel from Shipman, and Mr. Quiamas said Shipman’s indications are they want to lease. However, everything hinges on the outcome of the final EA. The land acquisition and design cannot be completed until the final EA is done. Mr. Araujo said the intersection by Shipman Industrial Park is very dangerous, and it will be bad if the general public has to go there. Mr. Quiamas said the DOT has a project to fund and signalize that intersection during the next fiscal year. (2) New technologies. Chair Hayducsko said some members had asked him to check out BioEnergy Hawaiʻi. He has been playing phone tag with Guy Kaniho. He will try to get some information about the project and perhaps have Mr. Kaniho give a short presentation on it. Ms. Seckel said there are a lot of new technologies out there, but they are very specific as to size of community, population centers, how much waste is generated, and what is trying to be done. The SWAC need to narrow what they want to look at—are they looking to reduce greenhouse gas emissions? Improve the sorting of recyclables? Improve the sorting of solid waste residuals before going to the landfill? Once the Committee identifies what needs to be improved, then a study can be done. Ms. Adams asked if the waste characterization was going to be updated, and Chair Hayducsko said there is no plan to do a waste characterization study for the plan. However, if the SWAC recommends it, they can make that suggestion. Ms. Seckel said there was a 2008 study referenced in the 2009 plan, and she believes it would have similar results now. Ms. Adams said she was just asking the question, as she wonders whether things have changed enough to warrant another study. Mr. Araujo said that being a hauler, he feels how tonnage is calculated is wrong. It is the volume that should matter, not the weight. The landfill is not getting too heavy—it is getting too full. Chair Hayducsko said waste composition studies are useful, but he is concerned because they always get just a snapshot of the waste, whatever was dumped in that timeframe. The waste could be very different in another hour. Dwight Miller (via speakerphone) asked to weigh in on this. He said a waste characterization study could be done, focusing on those areas of greatest interest. Some major demographic and social changes have occurred in the past 10 years, particularly with online shopping and the packaging with that, and the types of plastics being used. A study would help get a better feel for the recyclables that are to go into the various facilities being proposed. He would like to do a waste characterization study and focus on those areas of particular interest to the County and where the best opportunities are for pulling material out of the landfill. 7