STAND. COM. REP. 122

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1053

 

 

 

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. 1053 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSERVATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to include the Kapolei Parkway and the University of Hawaii-West Oahu as public land development projects that qualify for Safe Harbor Agreements and Habitat Conservation Plans.

Specifically, this bill:

(1) Includes the University of Hawaii-West Oahu as a landowner on lands within Tax Map Key Number (1) 9-1-016: Portion 108; and

(2) Clarifies the description of the Kapolei Parkway, Ewa, project to include the proper tax map key number.

The University of Hawaii-West Oahu, Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference, and the Land Use Research Foundation testified in support of this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources and the Department of Transportation supported the intent of this bill. Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter, and Hawaii Audubon Society testified in opposition to this measure.

Your Committees find that the projects involve future development of transportation infrastructure and the West Oahu University Campus in Kapolei. This measure allows these projects to participate in the Habitat Conservation Planning process, which will allow the State to relocate endangered species found on the properties in question.

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. 1053 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