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2. A public access rating system to help with prioritization; 3. Ensure comprehensive reviews of projects (on public or private lands) that will affect public accesses and trails. 4. Establish a program to inventory ancient trails, cart roads, and old government roads in coordination with appropriate State agencies. Ensure that publicly owned historic trails and roads are properly identified and consultation occurs to protect the public's interests. (GP 12.3 (n) Highways Act of 1892) s. Identify agencies/groups to develop, administer, and maintain public accesses, including developing County capacity for this purpose; 6. Identify funding sources to purchase public access easement to priority areas; 7. When public access goals will involve several landowners, acquire the public access incrementally as opportunities arise to do so; 8. Public accesses that cross private land will be acquired and held until appropriate management of the accesses is in place; 9. Collaborate with State and Federal agencies on public accesses that require multi - agency involvement; io. Develop a standardized template to promote consistency and comprehensiveness in the public access plans required by landowners; ii. Partner with community organizations capable of assisting with public access management; 12. Work with State agencies (particularly with DOFAW) to coordinate, survey, develop, and manage public trails and roads leading to forest reserves. 13. In co-sponsorship with the State when possible, acquire land for public access to historic sites and objects and to the shoreline where safe transit does not already exist. 14. Reinstitute a Public Access Sign program managed by the Planning Department to assist interested community groups in maintaining appropriate signage at public access points. is. Provide cultural and safety information at trailheads. The above actions can be implemented independently of each other and do not reflect prioritization by their listing order. Policy 48 Pursue access easements and/or acquisition of high priority public accesses to meet CDP objectives. Policy 49 Where possible through permit conditions, easements, or acquisitions, the County of Hawai'i shall establish: public access to and along the shoreline to significant historic sites, public transit along the top of cliff, streams, mauka trails, facilities, and access to sites for gathering, hunting, and other recreational purposes. 19 Hamakua CDP Guidance to Agencies