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There were subsequent submittals that the Board approved. It allowed portions of the $2.5 million to be used for planning, the development plan and the EIS process. Another action by the Board also allowed the developer to use the proposed park entry road as the developmentÓs primary or secondary access. In return for that right, developer will construct at their own expense all of the required intersection work at Queen K. ItÓll be all at their expense, the accel/decel lanes and whatever else that needs to be done, as well as they will pay totally at their expense that section of the access road that will connect to their development road. The planning, the conceptual design, the EIS process has involved the Kekaha Kai State ParkÓs Task Force, the Task Force which worked on this matter for about ten years. You know, as probably one of the longest running community action groups in the history of the State, we have been blessed with having some very knowledgeable, very hard- working and very dedicated people on that task force. Initially, the Task Force was quite structured. They had certain kinds of people representing government, business, the environment, family members who came from that area; but it ended up with people who, all of these people plus people who were interested in working on the park, working on doing things correctly. The last meeting was held just prior to the finalization of the Mr. Darrow indicated. Notice of Availability was published on May 23, 2003 in the OEQC Environmental Notice. The Governor formally accepted the E 2003. This is the first part of our permitting process to actually begin construction of these improvements. IÓll ask Mr. Leonard to continue and talk about those improvements. SPRINGER:Mr. Leonard, could you please give us your address as well? LEONARD:Sure. My name is James Leonard. My residence address i 1100 Ainalako Road, Hilo, Hawaii 96720. SPRINGER:You may proceed. LEONARD:Madam Chairperson and Commissioners, Jeff went over the components of the project. I just wanted to highlight some details here. Hopefully, you can see from where youÓre sitting right there. But the access road goes from Queen K Highway, from Queen Kaahumanu Highway, alongside Puu Kuili; and itÓs designed to follow sort of the natural contours of the land and to avoid to the extent practical the known archaeology thatÓs in the area. So weÓve sort of highlighted where the archaeological sites are on this overall map. ItÓs a 20-foot paved road with 6-foot shoulders on either side, is whatÓs planned at this point. And as it approaches the area of Kua Bay or as Billy Paris points out that this is actually an area thatÓs better referred to as Maniniowali, known as Maniniowali. All the legends refer back to Maniniowali, but the common label on there is Kua Bay. 4