1.1. Archaeological Monitoring General Approach Archaeological Inventory Survey (AIS) plans, fieldwork, reports, data recovery and construction monitoring plans have been completed in compliance with Hawai'i State (Hawai'i Administrative Rules Chapter 13-275 and 13-276) and Federal Environmental and Historic Preservation Review (Section 106 implementation language - 36 CFR Part 800, Protection of Historic Properties), and the Project Section 106 Programmatic Agreement (PA) Stipulation III. Under the Hawai‘i State historic preservation legislation, “Archaeological monitoring may be an identification mitigation, or post-mitigation contingency measure. Monitoring shall entail the archaeological observation of, and possible intervention with, on-going activities which may adversely affect historic properties” (HAR Chapter 13-279-3). In order to mitigate potential adverse effects to archaeological cultural resources within the HRTP Projectwide Area of Potential Effect (APE), it was determined that project construction proceed under an archaeological monitoring program (beginning with an archaeological monitoring plan for relevant project construction sections to be reviewed and approved by the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) and the State Historic Preservation Division, per HAR Chapter 13-279-4). Archaeological monitoring is specified in Section III.E.1 of the project’s PA as an appropriate form of archaeological cultural resource mitigation. This archaeological monitoring program is warranted as an historic preservation mitigation measure for the HRTP. The proposed monitoring program will serve as a mitigation measure that facilitates identification, proper documentation, and treatment decisions should previously unidentified archaeological cultural resources, including burials, be encountered. If encountered and if appropriate, these previously unknown archaeological cultural resources will be treated as “post-review discoveries” under 36 CFR 800.13 and HAR Chapter 13-280 (“Procedures for Inadvertent Discoveries during a Project Covered by the Historic Preservation Review Process”) per Stipulations XII.B. - D. of the PA.
