2024-05-14 FHWA Request to SHPD for No Adverse Effect Concurrence

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2 Area of Potential Effects The Area of Potential Effect(APE) is approximately 16 miles north of Hilo at MP 18.5 of the Hawaii Belt Road. It is approximately 100 feet wide by 1,200 feet long along the roadway in the State Right of Way, and 300 feet by 1,000 feet makai of the highway at TMK: (3) 3-2-001-008. The total project acreage is 10.7 acres. The SHPD accepted the APE on April 15, 2024 (Project No. 2023PR01507, Doc. No. 240451405) and advised that should the APE need to be changed or refined in the future, your office should be notified. The Project plans have not changed since that time and no modifications to the APE have occurred. See Attachment 1 for the APE boundary, Attachment 2 for the Project plans, and Attachment 3 for site photos. Identification of Historic Properties Individuals meeting the Secretary of the Interior's (SOI)Professional Qualifications Standards reviewed available information, including National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) listings, information derived from online research and other sources to identify historic properties in the APE. In response to HDOT's request for information on Native Hawaiian Organizations or Hawaiian descendants with an interest in the undertaking or project location, the SHPO recommended consulting the U.S. Department of the Interior's Native Hawaiian Organization Notification List and consider including interested parties such as civic clubs and historic preservation groups. A Section 106 notice/advertisement of consultation was published in the Hawaii Tribune Herald and West Hawaii Today newspapers on March 29, 2024. Native Hawaiian organizations, and Native Hawaiian descendants, with ancestral lineal or cultural ties to, cultural or historic properties knowledge, or cultural or religious attachment to the proposed project area as well as other individuals and organizations with a demonstrated legal, economic, or historic property concern were asked to provide information of known historic properties in the APE. FHWA transmitted Section 106 consultation letters dated March 13, 2024; to the following organizations or individuals: • State of Hawaii,Department of Land and Natural Resources(DLNR) State Historic Preservation Division (SHPD) • State of Hawaii DLNR, Aha Moku Advisory Committee • State of Hawaii, Department of Hawaiian Home Lands • Hawaii County Cultural Resources Commission • Hawaii Island Burial Council • State of Hawaii, Office of Hawaiian Affairs • Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs • Association of Hawaiians for Homestead Lands • Au Puni 0 Hawaii • Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement • Friends of Iolani Palace