STAND. COM. REP. 164

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 85

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Energy and Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 85 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ACCRETED LANDS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require the Office of Environmental Quality Control (OEQC) to notify the public about beachfront accretion applications.

OEQC, Life of the Land, and a private individual testified in support of the bill.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Energy and Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 85 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Energy and Environmental Protection,

 

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HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair