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Page 51 1 mandated, you have clearance standards that are 2 mandated. 3 And, you know, it's really not up to a 4 municipality to tell the utility how to run their 5 business when they're directed by the New Jersey 6 Board of Public Utilities to begin with. 7 So all we can do is suggest. Over the 8 years, as the Board of Public Utilities has changed 9 their pruning standards, we went from having large 10 trees under wires that were -- that were 11 directionally pruned around wires to the fact that, 12 you know, we have to plant compact trees under wires 13 now at -- because the standards are just so strict 14 that it's impossible to have matching tree species 15 going down a street where there's overhead wires. 16 So we've had -- you know, 17 municipalities have had to change their methods of 18 providing street trees, you know, all because of the 19 different standards over the years. 20 So in terms of a large transmission 21 station such as this, where security is a problem and 22 everything else, there's so many factors that are 23 involved. 24 But all I can say is there's some very 25 nice trees on this site which I would hope that you