Report Title:
Hawaiian Home Lands, Kalaeloa
Description:
Directs that clean-up and infrastructure for the Hawaiian home lands at Kalaeloa be placed on a fast track.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
H.B. NO. |
439 |
TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The Hawaiian home lands were originally set aside to provide native Hawaiians with long term leases of land for homes, farming, and pastoral use. For many years, this obligation was shunted aside, and all too many Hawaiians who were on the wait list for Hawaiian home lands passed on without ever receiving them.
The State has made a concerted effort in recent years to fast-track Hawaiian home lands development in order to place more Hawaiians on the lands, such as the Waiehu Kou subdivision on Maui and the Kalawahine Streamside development near Punchbowl. Many waitlisted native Hawaiians are still not on the land, however, with the majority of them currently living on Oahu.
The closing of the Barbers Point Naval Air Station resulted in the conversion of five hundred eighty-six acres of land to the department of Hawaiian home lands. This conversion resolved demands for compensation for the Navy's use of Hawaiian home lands at the Naval Magazine at Lualualei. Barbers Point, renamed the traditional Hawaiian name Kalaeloa, has the potential to provide a significant number of residential lots for those on the wait list, once it is cleaned up and infrastructure is installed. The State can fulfill its obligation to get more native Hawaiians off the wait list and into their own homes the sooner that the Kalaeloa subdivision is developed.
The purpose of this Act is to put the clean-up of and infrastructure development on Hawaiian home lands at Kalaeloa on a fast track.
SECTION 2. The department of Hawaiian home lands is directed to implement a fast-track program to facilitate and finish any remaining clean-up of the Hawaiian home lands at Kalaeloa and to install sufficient infrastructure to lease the lots to native Hawaiians. The department may accomplish these goals by increments if that option is more feasible and would result in awarding leases sooner.
SECTION 3. The department shall submit a written report to the legislature at least twenty days before the beginning of each regular session on its progress in fast-tracking the Kalaeloa site. The reports shall continue annually until all the lots at Kalaeloa have been leased for the first time.
SECTION 4. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.
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