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Page 19 1 so. 2 BOARD MEMBER SCOTT: And of those projects 3 did they require cutting down trees 40 feet or more in 4 diameter? 5 THE WITNESS: I'm sorry. Can you repeat 6 that? The audio cut out a little bit. 7 BOARD MEMBER SCOTT: I'm sorry. Of those 8 times when you designed projects for PSE&G did it 9 require cutting down trees of 40 inches in diameter? 10 THE WITNESS: I don't know about 40 inches 11 but we've had some mature trees that we've had to take 12 down, sure. 13 BOARD MEMBER SCOTT: So they will be 14 smaller than 40? 15 THE WITNESS: Right. In the upwards of, 16 though. I mean, we've had I'd say trees of a similar 17 age span in some of those projects. 18 BOARD MEMBER SCOTT: Okay. Was it because 19 they were the communities that know, or what reason -- 20 if you had trees were there trees that were of that 21 size but you didn't take down? 22 THE WITNESS: Only if it was outside the 23 scope of the work, the limit of disturbance. We're 24 very conservative when we analyze these sites, so we're 25 not going to go out and indiscriminately recommend