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Much of my written testimony wasn't capsulated in my examination of Nr. Maly previously. DAVID: Hannah, can we offer her, she has prepared wr,tter, statement or testimony; and you have that before you. BALOG: Yes, it's accepted. SPRINGER. As you can see from that, I draw your attention again to the wahi pana of Pc, ,Q Hinakapo'uta of Kaiwi o ele and of the Ka'upuletnu lava flow itself. Kamakau describes how Pelt: came :ronr the inlands hungry for the awa from the ponds at Kiholo and Ka'upulehu and thus has formed the'c'a !low w}rich has been refereed to both in my testimony and in the testimony of others. Whi:e this has been identified as a significant event in the history of the Kaha lands, I would liken that to the signing of the Declaration of Independence which was a significant event in history. The Declaration, the document itself is a significant historic resource. And so while the flow has been identified as a historic volcanic, as a significant volcanic event, the flow which rernains is a signiftca-tit historic resource. I am satisfied with the data that Mr. Maly has collected. And as he testified, we will see that in volume two of the work prepared as a part of this process. I agree with Mr. Maly that the ihfomrants tray serve as the experts. the authorities, the advocates, if you will, for those resources by our availability to be interviewed. However, once the data is collected, other advocates need to emerge and other tools for their advocacy. We rely then, we the informants then rely on others and the tools that are available to them. Beginning with our contested, beginning with the public testimony before the State Land Use Commission in 1995 the entities and I-,dividual members which came together as the Coalition known as Ka Pa'a kai O Ka'ainz, the salt of the land, taken otu name from the salt gathering which has been so eloquently described by nakupuna as well as our own age peers. We came together with different perspectives, the colast like the $alt ou the land, we also liked the imagery of the ka'i, a thing fluid made pa'a, finnu nd we have always focused on the inadequacies of the process to mamta,n consis:cncy and confonnance with the various authorities, such as Ms, David outlined in her testimony. As I was taught by my ancestors and by my parents most immediately, we are karnaaina, we are children of the land, the thing9 of the land ate part of our family. Their body forms are the body forms of our family. For things that are light, there are th ngs that are dark, for things that are male !here are things that art famale; for things ori the tight hand there are things on the left hand; for things that are Nina there are things that are ku; and there is Nle. And the 1800 n`a~,`w. Ka'upulehu lava flows which comes out o', Kaiwi O Pele is for myself a wawakua??. It was OkUq identified daring the data collection but was not assessed Car its signil3cance. The wawakua tvas identified during data collection; but the potential impacts upon it were not assessed. Therefore, it is my opinion that this work is inadequate.