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DESCRIPTION OF PROJECT SITE AND SURROUNDING AREA 11. Subject Property: The subject property is an irregular shaped lot. 12. Soil Conservation Service Soil Survey Report: The Soil Survey Report classifies soils within the project site as Kiloa Fxtreme[y Stony Muck (rKXD), 6 to 20 percent slopes. This soil consists of well-drained, thin, extremely stony organic soils over fragmental A'a lava. The surface layer is very dark brown, extremely stony muck about 10 inches thick. Permeability is rapid, runoff is very slow and the erosion hazard is slight. This soil is used for woodland and pasture. 13. Land Study Bureau's Detailed Land Classification System: Soils within the subject property are classified as "E270" (Very Poor) for agricultural productivity by the Land Study Buteau. This soil is unsuited for machine tilling. 14. Agricultural Lands of Importance to the State of Hawaii (ALISH) system: Soils within the subject property are classified as "Unique Agricultural Land" by the ALISH system. "Unique Agricultural Land" are lands that have the special combination of soil quality, location, growing season and moisture supply and which is used to produce sustained high quality and/or high yields of a specific crop when treated and managed according to modern farming methods. 15. FIRM: The subject property is located outside the 500-year flood plain (Zone X). 16. Alala Recovery Plan: This plan dated October 28, 1982, prepared and approved by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in cooperation with the Alala Recovery Team, recorrunends that certain selected essential habitats be preserved and properly managed to provide for the continued existence and growth of the population of the Alala, an endangered bird whose population has reached an extremely critical state. The Central Kona area along the north and west slopes of Hualalai is considered to be the center of concentration for breeding Alala. The Plan recommends that portion of the lands of Kaloko above approximately 3,200 feet to 3,400 feet elevation, including all parcels in Blocks 8 thru 13 of Kaloko Mauka Subdivision, be designated as essential habitat for the Alala. Once such a habitat is "secured", a specific management plan for each habitat needs to be developed which would address the improvement of food supplies, protection from grazing, predators, and wildfires, and -2-