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Page 38 1 sorry. 2 CHAIRMAN NEUER: Please continue. 3 MR. FUTEY: So, the second one we were 4 talking about is 4102, this is a 36 inch diameter 5 breast height Linden, also located within the 6 electrified portion of the station. This clearly is 7 located within the post drive internal drive lane and 8 it's only about 32 feet from the proposed equipment, 9 also well within the expected potential fall range of 10 where that might go should there be a problem in the 11 future. 12 A third tree, I would like to highlight, 13 it's 4135, it's that on the corner here on Pleasant 14 Avenue, it's a 46 inch diameter breast height Linden 15 Plain tree. This one is about 24 feet from proposed 16 trenching for underground utilities. Additionally, 17 tree is expected to require pruning to place a 18 concrete manhole structure with a crane. The nature 19 of the pruning would require the removal of some 20 large leaders, some large limbs which would be 21 difficult for the tree to recover from, and in 22 addition to creating an unstable condition of the 23 tree between the trenching and the weight of the tree 24 being unequally distributed, at least to the risk of 25 uprooting and the tree potentially falling