2020-03-05 Exh C New Cingular dba AT&T USE 19-082

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Okay, now, to another aspect of this whole subject would be Federal issues. Now, the Federal issues involved, and I'm going to be talking about would be archaeological sites and endangered species that are present in the area and have been documented but overlooked. I've lived there for 42 years on 17'h Street and Maku`u. Now, there is property that has been set aside by the community, 33 acres which surround me, and another 20 acres where the proposed cell tower is attached to. This area is comprised of historic property with numerous surveyed archaeological sites containing Hawaiian burial sites, rock walls, rock piles, and additional culturally significant and legally protected archaeological sites. Bones in the ground. The 33 acres are protected land, and also the 20 acres directly surrounding the proposed AT&T cell tower in Kea`au is formerly called Waikahekahe ahupua`a in the Puna District, has, is comprised of the last and very last old virgin growth forest, two to three hundred years old, this is what they call kipuka area also. In there is aaverage trees are one hundred to two hundred feet tall. Some of `em are mangos with a 5 -foot diameter. These mango trees may reach at least 200 feet. We also have Hawaiian hawks which are not protected and Hawaiian owls which are not protected, but we do have an endangered and federally protected Hawaiian Hoary Bat that are endemic to the area and have been actually verified by AT&T's own cultural resources review and field inspection, which we have for your viewing pleasure if you'd like to look at it, but they've already acknowledged the existence within that area. And, because of that, just the bat issue alone, the Department of Forestry has been notified, and they have a field agent and they're presently working on the situation to verify and try to determine any EA, assessments on the property. Now, the other direction I'm going to go to is the archaeological—the cultural resources review failed. The filed inspection conducted May 141h 2019 REPLOGLE: Mr. Schiszler, could you SCHISZLER: prepared by AT&T REPLOGLE: —could you wrap it up, Mr. Schiszler? SCHISZLER: This environmental, this report determined the proposed tower site, this is very important, the proposed tower site is not located this is according to AT&T—it's not going to be located within .5, half a mile radius of the current project area, which is Federal law mandated for these protected species. And, additionally, it was determined by the report that the archaeological field inspection conducted there has no archaeological sites on or adjacent to the proposed cell tower project area. The cultural resources review and field inspection concluded in the aforementioned report that no direct or indirect impacts are expected from the tower. These findings of this report are in direct contradiction to the previous archaeological field inspection by the University of Hawaii at Hilo that determined this site to be comprised of Native Hawaiian burial sites and also heiau and intact rock walls in 33 acres, in a 20 -acre parcel directly bordering the proposed project site where Susan Escott, Bachelor of Arts, conducted an archaeological field inspection on an 85 -meter long by 85 -meter wide area surrounding the proposed cellular tower project area contains archaeological sites with nearby caves containing Hawaiian burials that have been covered over with a low linear rock pile located along the EXHIBIT C 18