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Planners Page 4 Apri121, 2003 inventory survey confirming that it believes that all sites have been found. An inventory survey can also result in a "no effect" letter if the archaeologist does not find any sites. 2. Evaluation of Significance. The inventory survey report will contain the private archaeologist's assessment of significance. SHPD will review and concur or request modifications. The end result should be an SHPD letter agreeing with the significance evaluation of the sites in question. There are five listed criteria in the SHPD rules: a. "Be associated with events that have made an important contribution to the broad patterns of our history; b. Be associated with the lives of persons important in our past; c. Embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, or method of construction; represent the work of a master; or possess high artistic value; d. Have yielded, or is likely to yield, information important for reseazch on prehistory or history; or e. Have an important value to the native Hawaiian people or to another ethnic group of the state due to associations with cultural practices - once carried out at the property or due to associations with traditional beliefs, events or oral accounts-these associations being important to the group's history and cultural identity." The General Plan, under the Historic Sites element, has a similar list of criteria under "Standards" (p.4), but also includes "one of a few of its age remaining", and "sites with a preponderance of original materials in context and complexes rather than single isolated sites unless they are of great significance" as criteria of significance. Obviously, there is a subjective element in the evaluation of significance. If there are sites, but they are not deemed significant, SHPD will issue a "no effect" letter. 3. Determination of Effect. This is a determination whether the project will have any effect on significant historical property. The typical land use approval will have some effect because potential and indirect effects must be considered.