STAND. COM. REP. 558

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 476

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 476, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSERVATION OF AQUATIC LIFE, WILDLIFE, AND LAND PLANTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to allow state and county agencies to enter into habitat conservation plans and safe harbor agreements.

The Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter, testified in support of this bill. The Department of Transportation and the Iliouokalani Coalition testified in support of the intent of this bill. The Estate of James Campbell, the Hawaii Forest Industry Association, and Hawaii Reserves, Inc., testified in opposition to this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Earthjustice, the Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference, the Land Use Research Foundation, and the Nature Conservancy of Hawaii commented on this bill.

Your Committee finds this measure will enhance protection of Hawaii's endangered and threatened species on public as well as private lands.

 

Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 476, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 476, H.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair