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There will be a hearing to deem the project a hardship, due to schedule . <br /> Once there is a hardship , then the Commission can only scope the same <br /> things MEPA is which are transportation and water quality . <br /> He wants the Committee to understand there are two parts of the Commission , <br /> the technical staff and the Commissioners . They don' t always view things <br /> the same. The Commissioners get 95% of their information from the <br /> technical staff , the other 5% is from the proponent. <br /> A subcommittee has been selected and George Benway will be on it. They have <br /> to have a meeting before the ETR is submitted to MEPA. To stay on <br /> schedule, the EIR has to be submitted by Dec . 30th , therefore the meeting <br /> will be Dec . 28th, 10 . 00 in town hall . This is not a publicized public <br /> hearing , it is for the subcommittee to get a sense of the issues . Greg <br /> Taylor will plan on being at the meeting . <br /> The technical staff will push as hard as they can to get as much <br /> transportation improvements as they can . Be prepared for that. The person <br /> doing water quality said he expected the project would emit the same water <br /> quality as if there was nothing built on the property. That was the <br /> original WBNERR position . Greg told them we could clearly show that if <br /> residences were built on the property , as it is presently zoned for, the <br /> school has a far less impact on water quality . That is not good enough for <br /> them. They want the town to have a program to protect Waquoit Bay from <br /> everything else built in town - he wants that as a stringer on the <br /> approval . <br /> The subcommittees do not always agree with the technical staff and Greg <br /> believes it will come to that with this issue. <br /> After MEPA gives its approval of the EIR , the Commission has to have a <br /> hearing 45 days after that. They said they will have it as soon as 17 days <br /> after (allows for 14 day legal advertising period) . You are at your own <br /> risk to start work at that time. <br /> Greg said there will be a public hearing , of the subcommittee , in January . <br /> Greg has told the person handling water quality that they cannot change the <br /> zoning through their policy , through what they would like to see happen . <br /> Greg was told the loading on Waquoit Bay is 50 , 000 kilograms of nitrates <br /> per year and this project will contribute 200-1 , 000 . <br /> Bill Hauck said Conservation has a nitrogen loading limit on anything <br /> within a flood plain or 100 feet beyond it. <br /> TECHNOLOGY INTERVIEWS <br /> BMK Inc. Don Kemp <br /> Mr. Kemp, principal of BMK presented a package of information on his firm. <br /> He will discuss his firm' s experience, their technical skills and whether <br /> they understand what Mashpee wants to do. He and his associate Carroll <br /> Bowen have worked together for 6 years . Projects they have worked on : <br /> Coordinate educational services in Bath , NY. They have a distance learning <br /> program in place that wasn ' t working well . BMK looked at a number of <br /> options : expanding the existing microwave TV network they had , put together <br /> a coaxial based cable TV cooperatively with the cable operators in the area <br /> or put in a 32 mile fiber optic loop to connect 16 schools in the district. <br /> They got the 5 cable companies to work together an put together a hybrid of <br /> the fiber optic and coaxial system but unfortunately the voters turned it <br /> down . <br /> Williston , VT: K--8 school . The first school in VT to have a phone in every <br /> 6 <br />