may be business practice -- greatly stepped up the degree to which they were applying for permits commack and the suggestion was they were doing this --, and the suggestion was there were doing this prior to the notification. does that fly with your experience? >> i cannot speculate. and i know that the number of applications we have received from many different carriers were stepped up in the last year. commissioner garcia: so it may not have to do with the law. am i cannot speculate on that. -->> i cannot speculate on that. commissioner hwang: commissioner garcia was asking about whether they took this into an support shouldn't in the processing of the permit that legislation was pending. with your department aware of the supervisor -- what is your department aware of supervisor avalos' legislation? >> yes, we were. commissioner hwang: is so where you testified there was no slowdown to your process of the permit, was the race speed up? >> no, when you come to look at a very small permit bureau and we get bombarded with permits from various types, whether public right of way or other per

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