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'Q- ®lIII YSO lYO[w rm uut P.K.O. Regulations) and the National Register, Bulletin 15 and 38. In any decision-making process there must be an established criteria to IDENTIFY, ASSESS and EVALUATE culturalhristorical resources; second, all relevant facts must have been gathered; and lastly, based upon the facts so gathered which have been deemed to be relevant in the case, made a finding that no adverse impacts exist and that the decision is consistent with the laws of this state. It has been the coalitions' position before the State Land Use Commission and the Hawaii County Planning Commision that absent such established crtteria or decision-making mechanisms, it would be extremely difficult, if not impossible to make a fair and accurate decision whether all traditional culturallhistorical properties have in fact been identified and of the traditional cuiturallhistodc properties so identified, whether they can be legitimately regarded as such. That absent such published rules for evaluating and documenting traditional cultursOlstoric properties, the agency has no guidelines to follow in order for It to make a fair determination, fair to all parties, of whether a particular cultural/historic property is significant enough to preserve, or if not significant, can be destroyed after first having retained data by photographs and field notes or other forms of recovery and retention. It is the coalition's position that such a methodology can be established. Lacking specific evaluation and assessment guidelines, identification and assessment of what is "culturally significant is left to the persuasion of the developer. It would be much more cost effective and sensible to start the process now and eliminate the need for future development delays stemming from Intervenor Petitions and contested