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actually many, many more unreported nights were worked. Personally, I made a log of over 100 nights and later the plant did admit to working many more hours. When you average these hours with the job from last year the data is quite different. The report also falsely states an average between 1999 and 2005 when in fact no night work ever began until 2002. If you were to average 2004 with 26 nights, 2005 with 52 approved only nights and 2009 with one job that lasted two months totaling 29 approved nights you come up with an average of 36 nights per year. If we use factual logs that I have with my documentation,the true average is over 60 nights for the three years which is a staggering 2 months out of the year, not quite the"infrequent 3%of nights"sited on page 30, but much closer to 20%of nights. When we look at when most of the work is done, it actually turned out to be 50%OF NIGHTS within a four month period, nights when all neighbors would love to sit outside and enjoy their evenings. Please keep in mind these nights included only one job from last fall, and this is what is so alarming, that the plant will have the ability to work 100%of the time as long as they have the work. On page 31 of the Environmental Noise Assessment, it "predicts" that 5% of the population will be awaked with its windows closed with a maximum of 10%. This study did not include but a few homes within a small radius of the plant. Hundreds of homes are impacted by this plant. See the letter from Air Pollution about the dust from the plant drifting into Riverbank. Even with the small population used, I can't understand why having 10% of residents awoken for months at a time would be acceptable, especially since this is a "prediction." In this study they"predicted"my home would not be impacted by the noise even though many times their own study showed that the plant had EXCEEDED THE ALLOWABLE NOISE LIMIT during the daytime hours. Currently, this daytime situation alone is unacceptable, and they are currently in violation using their own noise study. This is their third noise study and I am sure the most favorable. I know this because each time a study is done I can see the sound meters from my home. I do not have to "predict" what impact night work from this plant will have on my family as we were forced to live this nightmare each time night work has been done. I can tell you 100%of ALL nights they worked we were awakened and received little to no sleep.We were forced to close our windows, wear earplugs, and listen to our PG & E bill churn right along with the sound of the air conditioner we were forced to run. Our utility bills were outrageous. Most of the complaints were not even addressed in the Environmental Noise Assessment "predictions". The largest complaint of course was the noise from the in-hauling of the old road and the back-up beepers, loaders, squealing tire brakes along with the jake-brakes, and loud banging as they dumped the material. Also heard all nights were the plants beepers from their own equipment that were supposed to be turned off, horn honking,and the actual running of the asphalt plant. All of these, along with atmospheric conditions, exceeding daytime noise levels and prevailing winds were largely unaccounted for in the Environmental Noise Assessment. However, a huge issue has become the rubberized asphalt that they now use in their night jobs. There has been numerous complaints to SIC Air Pollution Control District as this horrible smell burns our eyes and mouth. It hangs in the air during the night, and forced us inside our homes. it smells just like the