Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 13 - DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES › Subtitle 13 - HISTORIC PRESERVATION DIVISION › Chapter 279 - RULES GOVERNING STANDARDS FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL MONITORING STUDIES AND REPORTS › Section 13-279-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter unless the context requires
				  otherwise:
"Ahupua'a" means a traditional Hawaiian land division
				  usually extending from the mountain to the sea.
"Archaeological data recovery" means the form of mitigation
				  that archaeologically records or recovers a reasonable and adequate amount of
				  information as determined by the department, from a significant historic
				  property.
"Archaeological inventory survey" means the process of
				  identifying and documenting the archaeological historic properties and burial
				  sites in a delineated area, gathering sufficient information to evaluate
				  significance of the historic properties and burial sites, and compiling the
				  information into a written report for review and acceptance by the
				  department.
"Burial site" means any specific unmarked location where
				  prehistoric or historic human skeletal remains and their associated burial
				  goods if any, are interred, and its immediate surrounding archaeological
				  context, including any associated surface or subsurface features, deemed a
				  unique class of historic property, and not otherwise included in section
				  6E-41,
				  HRS.
"Consultation process" means notifying interested
				  organizations and individuals that a project could affect historic properties
				  of interest to them; seeking their views on the identification, significance
				  evaluations, and mitigation treatment of these properties; and considering
				  their views in a good faith and appropriate manner during the review
				  process.
"Department" or "DLNR" means the state department of land
				  and natural resources.
"Historic preservation review process" means the process
				  specified in chapters 13-275 and 13-284, used to comply with sections
				  6E-7,
				  6E-8
				  and
				  6E-42,
				  HRS.
"Historic property" means any building, structure, object,
				  district, area, or site, including heiau and underwater site, which is over
				  fifty years old.
"Mitigation" means the measures taken to minimize impacts to
				  significant historic properties. Mitigation may take different forms,
				  including, but not limited to, preservation, archaeological data recovery,
				  reburial, ethnographic data recovery, historic data recovery, and architectural
				  recordation.
"Person" means any individual, firm, association, agency,
				  organization, partnership, estate, trust, corporation, company, or governmental
				  unit that is proposing a project.
"Project" means any activity directly undertaken by the
				  state or its political subdivisions or supported in whole or in part through
				  appropriations, contracts, grants, subsidies, loans, or other forms of funding
				  assistance from the state or its political subdivisions or involving any lease,
				  permit, license, certificate, land use change, or other entitlement for use
				  issued by the state or its political subdivisions.
"Project area" means the area the proposed project may
				  potentially affect, either directly or indirectly. It includes not only the
				  area where the project will take place, but also the proposed project's area of
				  potential effect.
"Significant historic property" means any historic property
				  that meets the criteria of the Hawaii register of historic places or the
				  criteria enumerated in subsection
				  13-275-6(b) or
				  13-284-6(b).
"State historic preservation division" or "SHPD" means the
				  state historic preservation division within the state department of land and
				  natural resources.