2024-03-05 PL-SMA-2023-000046 Malie Ibarra Opposition Testimony

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kupuna/cultural practitioners, kuleana land owners, the archaeologist and the development planners to record all the burial areas that are not recorded in the archaeology report or Master Plan." This is an essential step to discovering burial sites so that those areas are not disturbed. According to the DLNR https://files.hawaii.aov/dlnr/shpd/rules/300.pdf to request preservation, which is what I assume will be done after the archaeologists and cultural practitioners find burial sites, "The applicant shall submit a request to preserve in place or relocate a Native Hawaiian burial site to the department in the form of a burial treatment plan." Therefore, a burial treatment plan should be put in place before any construction or development plan is approved. No plans of burial treatment were stated in the development plan other than when construction would begin. To quote, "Before any future construction is started, an additional burial treatment plan for inadvertent burials or re-burials is recommended that includes cultural protocols (i.e. re-wrapping iwi kupuna, ceremony, etc.) as well as State and County regulations." If this is true, the burial treatment plan is then said to be created after development approval. The walk-through to record burial sites must happen before planning to develop if burial sites be uncovered, desecrated, and disrespected. To further rectify this, a burial treatment plan needs to be done before any development plans are approved. If the development plans are approved and burial sites are uncovered, what will happen? How will the applicant move forward? Will the development plan be changed? These are questions that could be answered by including a burial treatment plan. Aside from burials, there are living consequences that must be dealt with. Every living person creates waste but finding a place to put it is where the problems lie. For wastewater alone, Punaluu`s sewage systems will not be able to accommodate both its residents and visitors. According to https://ecoseptic.com, "the average person produces about 80-100 gallons of wastewater per day." With this in mind, the development plan states that "The existing WWTP was constructed in 1972 with a design capacity of 100,000 gallons per day (gpd). Historical flow records indicate that the daily processed flow is approximately 10,000 gpd." If the historical flow records do indicate that the daily processed flow is approximately 10,000 gpd and that 1 person produces around 80-100 gallons a day, that means that this statistic only accounts for 100 people and their daily water waste at Punaluu. I believe there are more than 100 people that visit Punaluu a day. Punaluu is 1 of the 11 Black Sand beaches on Hawaii island, widely known for its turtle population, and is a frequent tour bus stop, so it is hard to believe that the WWTP only accounts for 10,000 gpd or 100 people's wastewater a day. According to the development plan, "The Project Site is