Hawaii Administrative Rules › Title 13 - DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES › Subtitle 13 - HISTORIC PRESERVATION DIVISION › Chapter 275 - RULES GOVERNING PROCEDURES FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION REVIEW FOR GOVERNMENTAL PROJECTS COVERED UNDER SECTIONS 6E-7 AND 6E-8, HRS › Section 13-275-2 - Definitions

Current through June, 2024
As used in this chapter unless the context requires
				  otherwise:
"Agency" means any state or county governmental
				  entity.
"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 identification
				  and documentation of 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.
"Architectural inventory survey" means the identification
				  and documentation of architectural historic properties in a delineated area and
				  providing the information to the department.
"Architectural recordation" means the form of mitigation
				  that records and analyzes through architectural study a reasonable and adequate
				  amount of the information about a significant historic property.
"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.
"Consensus determination" means the evaluation of a historic
				  property's significance, arrived at by the consensus of the SHPD and the
				  agency.
"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.
"Detailed mitigation plan" means the specific plan for
				  mitigation, including, but not limited to, a preservation plan, an
				  archaeological data recovery plan, an ethnographic documentation plan, a
				  historic data recovery plan, a burial treatment plan, and an architectural
				  recordation plan. The detailed mitigation plan serves as a scope of work for
				  mitigation.
"Determination letter" means the SHPD's written response
				  which either concurs or does not concur with an agency's proposed
				  project.
"Ethnographic documentation" means the form of mitigation
				  that records and analyzes a reasonable and adequate amount of information about
				  a significant historic property, through interviews with knowledgeable
				  individuals and the study of historical source materials.
"Ethnographic inventory survey" means the identification and
				  documentation of historic properties in a delineated area, gathering
				  information through interviews with individuals knowledgeable about the area
				  and a study of historical source materials.
"Hawaii historic places review board" means the governor
				  appointed board established by section
				  6E-5.5,
				  HRS.
"Historic data recovery" means the form of mitigation that
				  records, compiles, and analyzes a reasonable and adequate amount of information
				  about a significant historic property prior to its destruction, through the
				  study of historical source materials.
"Historic property" means any building, structure, object,
				  district, area, or site, including heiau and underwater site, which is over
				  fifty years old.
"Interested persons" means those organizations and
				  individuals that are concerned with the effect of a project on historic
				  properties.
"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 documentation, historic data recovery, and architectural
				  recordation.
"Mitigation commitment" means the commitment to the form of
				  mitigation to be undertaken for each significant historic property.
"Person" means any individual, firm, association, agency,
				  organization, partnership, estate, trust, corporation, company, or governmental
				  unit that is proposing a project.
"Preservation" means the mitigation form in which a historic
				  property is preserved.
"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 subsections
				  13-275-6(b) or
				  13-264-6(b).
"State historic preservation division" or "SHPD" means the
				  state historic preservation division within the state department of land and
				  natural resources.