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With regard to the questions that you have posed to my colleagues, I have observed how during this process beginning with the State Land Use Commission hearings data collection, the quality of it, has improved. There were particular references that were tnade to particular articles in the Hawaiian language newspapers during t!re State Land Use Commission contested case hearing that appear now in the data before us in Appendix A. The question still remains as to the assessment, I'm sorry, the evaluation of that data and the assessment of the impacts to those cultural resources that are identified, and that burden does not tic with the informants. Thank you. DAVID: Thank you, Hannah. I :gave no more questions. BALOG; Planning DepartniLnt? O'TOOLE: Yes. When you state the burden does not lie with the informants, does that mean that you would not have any suggestions to the hearing officers regarding particularly the lava flow which you have been identified as an :mpottant source on? SPRINGER: Even my recommendation to the hearing officer and the County Planning Commission might be out of order without a proper evaluation of the resources and the impacts upon them. In the same way that 1 believe that the presumption that deve':opment may occur is out of order lacking that evaluation of the data collected of the cultural resources and any impacts upon them. So I believe that it's a matter of sequencing. The data must be collected, it has been. The data must be evaluated with regard to significance. The lava flow in particular does not benefit from that evaluation at this porn'. And it has been testified that it, the-e has been testimony that it will be in the fume. Until we know that I de not see how. I do not see any assessment of the impacts to it. Bat if you do look to my testimony I do have a number of su&gestions, and they are part of the record in my interview with Mr. Maly, and these occur on page 97 of Appendix A. And Mr. Maly and I have discussed this issue. If we look at my testimony or the summary of my interview compared to others there is not, there are not sufficient guidelines to guarantee that all ethnographers would proceed above and beyond the confines of the national bulletin, which number I forget right now but was in the KATAYAMA: Thirty eight BALOG' Thirty eight. SPRINGER: Thank you. Thirty eight. Not all interviewees will come up with the scope of recommendations such as I have. Therefore, lacking guidelines that's not just towards conformance with the statutes and the ordinances, 1 believe that the process is deficient. You'll see that I have nine recommendations. O'TOOLE: But you have recommendations. I see.