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Page 133 1 And then the view all the way from the 2 west down Mount Pleasant. This really remains 3 unchanged, but it does show the evergreen trees here 4 shielding the building still. So everything down 5 here pretty much remains. 6 That really concludes my testimony. Thank 7 you. 8 ACTING CHAIR SCHWARZBAUM: Okay. So what 9 I would like you to do is to go tree by tree and the 10 rationale of why you're taking them down, whether 11 it's due to the requirements of the construction for 12 the equipment and substation versus along the fence 13 and give the rationale for the removal of trees. 14 THE WITNESS: It's really primarily due to 15 the nature of the improvements to the site. I mean, 16 obviously the ones inside the plant here, they have 17 to come down because of the equipment. 18 ACTING CHAIR SCHWARZBAUM: So how many 19 trees are there? So how many trees are you removing 20 in total? 21 THE WITNESS: In total -- and this is in 22 the table that was submitted as part of the 23 application -- there are 136 viable trees that are 24 slated to be removed. There are an additional 14 25 trees that are being removed that are considered to