Miki Basin Industrial Park Environmental Assessment
Exhibit A
Archaeological Inventory Survey
Archaeological Data Recovery Plan
And
Archaeological Data Recovery Report
(Including Cultural Impact Analysis) September 24, 2019
Kurt Matsumoto, COO Pulama Lāna‘i 733 Bishop Street Suite 2000 Honolulu, HI 96813
Re: Archaeological Inventory Survey for the Miki Basin 200 Acre Industrial Development TMK (2) 4-9-002:061 (portion) Dye, DiVito and Maly (May 9, 2018)
Mr. Matsumoto:
This letter confirms that, although not titled as such, the Archaeological Inventory Survey cited above included research compliant with guidelines for development of a cultural impact assessment study (CIA), required by the Hawai‘i Supreme Court’s holding in Ka Paakai O Ka Aina v. Land Use Commission, State of Hawai‘i, 7 P.3d 1068, 94 Hawai‘i 31 (2000).
The study includes descriptions of traditional knowledge of place, and traditional and customary practices as documented in Hawaiian language accounts from Lāna‘i. There also cited important historical accounts penned by foreign residents and visitors, documenting the changes in land use, access and residency from the 1840s to the 1950s. As a result of the rapid decline of the native Hawaiian population on Lāna‘i, and early control of nearly all the land on the island by non-native business interests, little documentation pertaining to the extent to which traditional and customary native Hawaiian rights might be exercised in the petition area survived the passing of time. No native tenant kuleana (property rights) or Royal Patent Grants were issued for lands within the petition area. By the 1870s control of the petition area lands was held under one individual, who also posted notices advising against trespass. By the 1920s, the entire area was dedicated to cultivation of pineapple (see Figure 1). Through the 1930s, the petition area included a residential field camp for Japanese employees of the plantation and their families.
Cultivation of pineapple and maintenance of support infrastructure such as road ways, water lines and stockpile sites was the only land use in the area until the close of the plantation in 1992. The Petition Area was completely cleared and cultivated in pineapple for nearly 70 years. The land was bulldozed, plowed, graded, and planted with pineapples multiple times during that period. Because of the heavy use of pesticides and growth hormones, it would have been highly unlikely that plants of medicinal or other cultural uses would have been gathered across these fields. Since the close of the pineapple plantation in 1992, a few native plant species have volunteered across the nearly 20,000 acres of former pineapple fields. Most notable are the indigenous ‘a‘ali‘i (Dodonaea viscosa), ‘ilima (Sida fallax), naio (Myoporum sandwicense), and the ‘uhaloa (Waltheria indica). While each of the plants have cultural value and uses, none are rare, and all grow throughout the Pālāwai-Miki Region of Lāna‘i.
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There was no evidence of any protected cultural practices occurring on the site. Therefore, the project will not have any significant negative impact on traditional and customary practices.
Should you have any further questions, please let me know.
‘O'O wau no me ka ha‘aha‘a,ha'aha'a,
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