I'll introduce it, and I want to speak to it briefly.
This is with regard to a recommendation that business proprietary information be removed as an independent ground for closing an otherwise public hearing.
The rationale for this is that it's not appropriate to empower an environmental review body to close a public hearing in order to protect business proprietary information that is neither confidential, privileged in law, nor harmful to a witness. Those are the pieces that are important, which allows the board to make the determination whether it's confidential, privileged in law, or harmful to the witness.
The public interest outweighs considerations of competitive advantage in this type of proceeding where direct substantial harm to a witness would not be caused by disclosure.