STAND. COM. REP. 2979

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2716

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2716 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SOUTH KONA WILDERNESS AREA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate moneys to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct an appraisal of private lands contained within the south Kona wilderness area to be used as a basis for decisions on purchasing the land or conducting a land exchange.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and the Hawaii Chapter of the Sierra Club. Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that an appraisal of private lands in the south Kona wilderness area is necessary for the purchase of land or a possible land exchange. Your Committee believes that this measure will appropriate the necessary moneys to accomplish these goals.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2716, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair