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someone else. The law is clear; and maybe in addition to what the law says, maybe Hawai`i County needs to have a policy for these kinds of things. And I would certainly support that because, again, the more you can do this upfront instead of on the back end, be proactive, it’s helpful. Thank you. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Siracusa, follow-up? SIRACUSA:Yes. Actually, this is to the Director -. ALAMEDA:Is there any more questions for Mr. Tyler? SIRACUSA:That, on what Mr. Tyler’s recommendations were. ALAMEDA:Okay, so you can remain there still. We might have questions, I’m not sure. Okay? TYLER:I don’t mind sitting here, sir. SIRACUSA:I was wondering if the Director would care to comment on some of the conditions that Mr. Tyler proposed. ALAMEDA:Director? YUEN:Well, I think it’d be useful for me to just talk briefly about what is in the record and the kinds of things we typically do look for and get to assess whether there’s an impact on gathering rights, or other traditional and cultural practices in an SMA Permit application. First, we will, we require an archaeological study or clearance from the SHPD that there aren’t any archaeological sites. This gives you a study of the physical cultural remains of the Hawaiian culture that may be on the site; and here we have a thorough study. We have an assessment of the significant sites; we have a condition requiring the physical preservation of those sites. The actual site buffers will be set. The process is that SHIPTA will look at a preservation plan prepared by the applicant and will ultimately agree on what the site buffers will be. So we have that; and so we have protected the physical integrity of the archaeological sites. Then, if you, also, the Burial Treatment Plan will discuss access to burials. The preservation plan will, may or may not, depending on the type of site, may or may not discuss whether the people will have access to the site itself. Then you have the question of gathering. Gathering, there are some extremely rare things like red dirt that may be gathered, typically there, that are not plants or animals. Okay? Typically the archaeological study if there’s evidence of this will mention that. Then you have plants and you have animals. And this here, this application is, as in typically with our, at least our larger SMA applications, we have a botanical study which shows that the site has, dominated by introduced plants that are typically not gathered. They did mention that the ko`oko`olau is there. There’s no indication from the study itself whether that it is gathered. They do say that it is much more common in the Kailua area than thought and, so, I’m not recommending any specific actions to be taken with the ko`oko`olau.There is a faunal study. There’s no, there are no animals that are typically gathered or used culturally listed in the faunal study. It’s not a EXHIBIT B 28