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Page 115 1 that like a dull gray/silver kind of color? 2 THE WITNESS: Exactly. Yep. 3 COMMISSIONER DANNEMILLER: Okay. Thank 4 you. No further questions. 5 ACTING CHAIR SCHWARZBAUM: Mr. Barbee? 6 COMMISSIONER BARBEE: No questions. Thank 7 you. 8 ACTING CHAIR SCHWARZBAUM: Okay. 9 Mr. Williams, any questions? 10 MR. WHEATLE WILLIAMS: Yes. Thanks, 11 Acting Chair. 12 Just for clarification on the record, if 13 Mr. Copa could just state for the record the purpose 14 of the lightning masts. I appreciate the answer to 15 the prior question, but just for the record, what is 16 the purpose of a lightning mast? 17 THE WITNESS: Yeah. So the purpose of the 18 lightning mast is basically they are the taller 19 structures, so they're then designed to protect the 20 shorter equipment that is less than there. So that 21 rather than the critical electrical grid getting 22 struck by lightning in the event of a lightning 23 strike, the lightening masts are to protect those by 24 mitigating those strikes to those pieces of 25 equipment that keep the equipment operating as