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Mr. Henderson asked the Board to please note the salt fish were indicated as south, whereas, the shellfish beds were not. Mr. Jim Thomas, Biologist for addressed the Board. He stated as a biologist it was his role in this development process to look for environmental problems and try to address them in various stages of development. He said he had not had a chance to see, or hear about the letter Mr. Challacombe mentioned he had re- ceived from the Fish & Game Commission, till now. He felt this was not the place to get into technical discussion of this sort. He said he could certainly contest chemical stratification and other things mentioned in the letter to the Board but asked that he be allowed to remind the Board of the process they must follow after this stage of receiving County approv- al was made. Mr. Thomas noted the DER, Corp of Engineers and by that time, at least eight (8) state and federal agencies would review the technical aspects of this process; the proper place for the Fish & Game Commission letter, would be at that point. He also noted that one of the departments answering to the DER was the Game & Fish. Mr. Thomas explained how the DER had a technical staff capable of evaluating that type of thing (data) and most Counties did not have qualified staff capable of evaluating the technical data required. He stated without DER approval, this project could really not be built. He wanted to submit to the Board, the proper place for that letter to be submitted would be in the permitting 1. process that comes after County approval. Mr. Thomas offered to take the letter, piece by piece, and contest the technical things there, for the Board; but again he submitted this was not the proper time. Mr. Jones asked Mr. Brandenburg to what extent in the site plan approval, do these technical questions intrude or influence the Board's decission in this matter? He also asked if the point Mr. Thomas was making was'a good one? Mr. Brandenburg thought even though the project has to go through subsequent processing to other governmental agencies, this Board should judge this project on its own; as if it did not, under County standards, by itself; and take a look at all the aspects of it and review it carefully. He thought Mr. Thomas was correcting in stating this was not..(he injected this was not his job to feel one way or the other, whether this was a technical form for that type of scienctific analysis of strat- ification, etc,), JAN 27 1 :Z -21- E-m 4 �S" PAGE I U �