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• Consider stakeholder input, feasibility, and potential benefit/impact when establishing priorities. • To prioritize watersheds that require protection and/or management, identify major land covers, land uses, and polluting activities, as recommended by the ORMP (see Appendix V4A). Given the pristine streams, areas in between the Maulua Gulch to Wailuku River area will likely be priorities. • For coastal areas, consider a coastal resource management plan, as described above. Document historical and current conditions in high priority areas using local, place -based knowledge and the best science available: • Clearly identify resources, their significance, and threats. • Start with existing documentation and maps in the CDP (including the Community Profile and Appendix V4A), historic maps, past studies, fishermen, hikers, surfers, local Hawaiian families with ahupua'a- specific knowledge, and other existing resources. • Map popular hunting, fishing, surfing, swimming, and hiking areas. Though they shouldn't be publicized, commonly used areas should be identified so that they can be protected and managed. • Inventory and map undocumented resources in coastal areas, including coastal fish populations, estuaries, anchialine pools, tidal wetlands, coral reefs, vegetation, turtle nesting and feeding sites, and monk seal habitat. • Take great care to keep information about sensitive resources unpublished and not public in order to minimize impacts, theft, vandalism, and other breaches in protocol. Develop site-specific and watershed -specific management plans tailored to high-priority areas and resources: Secure assistance with and funding for developing Watershed Management Plans (see Appendix V4A). Funding sources include the DOH Polluted Runoff Control (PRC) program and DOFAW's Watershed Partnership Program. Develop Watershed Management Plans for high priority areas. Watershed management plans are data - driven, technical, and detailed plans for specific watersheds that identify the sources of pollution and the recommended management strategies. Analysis that drives the planning includes community goals; hazard risks; unique social, cultural, economic, and environmental characteristics; mauka-makai connections; and stakeholder interests and potential for collaboration. As recommended by the ORMP, the plans may include strategies to: • Address specific land-based pollution threats • Meet total maximum daily load (TMDL) targets • Leverage state, federal, and private sector funding to implement best management practices • Monitor best management practices. Implement management plans for priority areas and resources. Organizational Considerations: The Action Committee may want to establish one or more subcommittees to Community Action Guide: 2017 19