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environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement required. That’s the trigger for that. So this project, not requiring an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement, does not need a cultural impact statement under the Act passed a couple of years ago as an amendment to Chapter 343 by the State Legislature. Then in the reference to Rule 9 which talks about the amendments to Rule 9 which cover the requirements of the PASH and Ka Pa‘akai case which requires a written description of the anticipated impacts of the proposed development on the valuable cultural, historical and natural resources on or in the vicinity of the property, that is included in the application; and it’s dealt with in the Background and Recommendation. The written description of the, in order to find out what the valuable resources are, in the case of this application, you have a botanical survey that was done, you have an archeological survey and you have a survey of the flora and fauna. And the botanical survey will tell you if there are plants that may be valuable and used in Native Hawaiian culture. The archaeological survey will tell you what historic sites may exist that are important as a resource for Hawaiian, Native Hawaiians. There’s also a study of the potential for water pollution arising from the project. That would tell you about the, you know, because there is fishing and gathering, and the quality of the ocean is also a valuable natural resource. So all of that, those are the kinds of information that’s in the application that addresses all of those issues. Then there is, you know, in analyzing this as a Department, in the Background Report -. There’s a discussion of all of these issues in the Background Report, mostly on Pages 3 and 4; and it talks about some of the resources on the property. Then in the Recommendation, the rules and the PASH cases require us to make findings about the potential effects on these natural and cultural resources, and those are contained in the Recommendation. Starting at the bottom of Page 5 and going on into Pages 6 and 7, it talks about the, there’s a paragraph showing what has been submitted as far as the investigation, and then it talks about possible adverse effects and then the feasible actions to protect it, which would include the protection of the historic sites and the fact that, with respect to plants which I talked about earlier, there aren’t any rare plants. They mention that there’s one plant, the kokoholau, which is used in Hawaiian culture; but it’s not rare, or unusual, or unique to this site. So all of that has been dealt with in both the application and in the proposed Findings and Recommendation that was submitted; and this is pretty much what you’re seeing with all SMA applications like this. You will see a discussion in our Background and in our Recommendations of the requirements of Rule 9, and how it has been dealt within the application, and what the actions that we’re saying should be taken to protect those. WATANABE:So then, Mr. Director, you’re saying, you’ll be in discussion with the Applicant and the Applicant’s consultant with regard to the cultural impact statement if, indeed, it is something that you feel is necessary. But it also seemed like you said it may not be necessary on this property because we didn’t need an EIA. EXHIBIT C 17