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Zone applications are necessary to allow the zoning to implement the overall Kumu Hou master plan. This next slide is, was provided by the applicant and this is the existing and proposed public access within the Waikoloa Beach Resort. So, conditions of the existing SMA permit, SMA 25 permit, required Waikoloa Beach Resort to develop a public access plan for the resort which was accepted by the Department in 1998. To date, the applicant has made public access improvements in accordance with that plan, largely within the makai area of the resort. So, what you see here are existing pu-- shoreline public accesses, accesses to different cultural and natural resources like fishponds, anchialine ponds, as well as associated parking and pathway facilities. Again for reference, you've got the King's Trail generally running diagonally through the slide here, and then for reference, we spoke about it before, the applicant is proposing to develop an 8- foot-wide pedestrian pathway within"Area B" to connect to Waikoloa Beach Drive north and south, and again to connect down here to the other pedestrian facilities within the resort. So, conditions of approval will require the applicant to update the approved public access plan to incorporate these new public access facilities and to create a holistic public access plan for the entirety of the resort. One more area to mention on this map is a location of a section of the Alaloa Trail otherwise identified in correspondence through this process as the Forerunner Trail and that's here running parallel to the King's Trail adjacent to "Area A". While not directly within the project area, the applicant consulted with staff from Na Ala Hele, which is the state trails program, and Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail program through this process about maintenance and management concerns for that section of the trail, including the removal of ironwood trees encroaching on the trail and within its existing 10-foot buffer. Removal of ironwood dust that blows onto the trail and the buffer area and establishment of an additional 30- foot buffer and vegetative transition area between the trail and any buildings that are proposed to be built within close proximity in "Area A". The applicant has agreed to memorialize these maintenance and management agreements in the preservation plan that we're going to discuss on the next slide. So, the applicant retains Haun and Associates to conduct an Archaeological Inventory Survey for the entire Kumu Hou project area. Ultimately the consultant created three drafts that were submitted to SHPD for review. The most recent draft was completed and submitted in October, and ultimately identified 14 sites with a total of 418 features, 13 complexes and 2 to 240 component features within the overall project area. All 14 sites identified by the AIS were assessed as significant under Criterion B, yielding information important for research, history or pre-history, and 11 of these 14 sites were recommended for no further work. The other three sites have been deemed significant additionally under Criterion E for cultural value. These sites include Site 26871, it's a series of trail segments, and portions of Site 31230, also trail section, as well as Site 26873, which is identified as the location of a previously excavated lava tube and other features on a pahoehoe rise. The final draft AIS recommends that these three sites be preserved in place pursuant to a required preservation plan to be approved by SHPD. SHPD reviewed and accepted the October AIS by letter dated November 15, which you should have received yesterday, and made a determination of effect with agreed upon mitigation commitments which include the development and adoption of a preservation plan for the three sites mentioned above. As they were negotiating, or consulting back and forth, this is a 11 EXHIBIT D