20017-02-6 HCDP Community Action Guide FINALIZED 06.01.2018 FINAL

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• Distinguish cultural resources that are appropriate for public access from those that are not (e.g., sacred sites or wahi pana) through consultation with kupuna, cultural practitioners, archaeologists, historians, and others with site-specific knowledge. • Map sites by GPS coordinates and in GIS geodatabases, as appropriate, taking great care to keep information about sensitive resources unpublished and not public in order to minimize impacts, theft, vandalism, and other breaches in protocol. • Consider developing an online tool modeled after digitalmoku.net or the Getty Conservation Institute's Arches system. Prioritize threatened areas and other areas of concern, identifying priorities for historic registration, acquisition, repair, restoration, and enhancement based on community input, feasibility, and potential benefit/impact. Develop and implement a regional plan for managing cultural and historic resources with a focus on prioritizing and addressing acquisition, protection, restoration, interpretation, and access needs, as identified in the inventory referenced above, and possibly including: • Supporting and coordinating the preparation of State and Federal historic site and district as well as historic landmark nominations for high priority cultural and historic sites and landscapes. • Coordinating the acquisition of historic and cultural sites (and/or access to them) for protection or public use. Acquisition can be supported through SHPD's Historic Preserves program and the County's PONC. • Coordinating and supporting other initiatives related to historic and cultural resource management (see other actions in this section). • Making recommendations to the County Cultural Resources Commission. Other Resources: To conduct additional research, SHPD can be contracted through its Inter -Agency Archaeological Services program. Students from UH Manoa programs as well as the new UH Hilo Heritage Management could be enlisted to help. The Save America's Treasures (SAT) program provides matching grants for preservation and/or conservation work on nationally significant intellectual and cultural artifacts and nationally significant historic structures and sites. Funds may be used for projects resulting in the protection and preservation of nationally significant historic structures and sites, as well as nationally significant collections of intellectual and cultural artifacts, documents, sculpture and works of art. The National Park Service's Tribal Heritage Grants assist Native Hawaiian organizations in protecting and promoting their unique cultural heritage and traditions, including oral history and sacred and historic places. Community Action Guide: 2018 �4