PD Background Report (PL-REZ-2022-000033) (2)

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associated with pre -Contact era through early post -Contact era to Historic era agriculture. Several Historic era walls and enclosures, a lava tube burial, and a portion of the old railroad berm were also documented in the report. Preservation was recommended for the burial and the railroad berm. SCS submitted a DRAFT Burial Treatment Plan for Burial Site #50-10-57-30593 Located in Holualoa Is' Ahupua `a, North Kona District, Island of Hawai `i, TMK: (3) 7-6-021:017, which was accepted by the Hawaii Island Burial Council on August 15, 2019 with a determination to preserve the burial in place. By letter dated August 19, 2019, SHPD accepted the document and SCS finalized the document as a Burial Site Component of a Preservation Plan, which includes interim preservation buffers and archaeological monitoring, and long term preservation measures including a permanent, 20 -foot preservation buffer from the outside perimeter of the burial portion of the lava tube, an additional 10 -foot, no -build easement outside of the pennanent preservation buffer, and the construction of a permanent, low rock wall with a gate for pedestrian access to be built under the direction of and inspected by a qualified archaeologist. (Planning Department Exhibit 2 — August 19, 2019 Letter from SHPD Accepting the August 2019 Burial Treatment Plan and August 2019 Burial Site Component of a Presrvation Plan for Burial Site #50-10-57-30593 Located in the H61ualoa 1st Ahupua`a, North Kona District, Island of Hawaii, Hawaii TMK: (3) 7-6-021:017). A final AIS completed by SCS (Escott and Escott, August 202 1) included a 100% surface survey of the entire 76.121 -acre project site with site recordation, GPS, photography, and subsurface excavation with documentation. A total of 18 sites and one isolated find were identified, including two newly identified sites and a petroglyph, with the remaining sites being previously documented, including pre -Contact to post -Contact enclosures, platforms, mounds, lava tubes, walls, a railroad berm, and complexes. Five previously identified sites were determined no longer present and as stated earlier, two burials were disinterred and reinterred off-site in 1993. All the sites were assessed as significant under HAR §13-284-6 Criterion d. The railroad berm (Site 50-10-37-30592) was also assessed as significant under Criteria a and c and was recommended for preservation. The petroglyph (Site 50-10-37-31254) was also assessed as significant under Criterion e and -12-