STAND. COM. REP. NO. 533

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 416

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 416 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WAIANAE COAST,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to prepare an environmental impact statement examining the extent of ocean activities, both private recreational and commercial, occurring and their impact on the ocean resources and state beach parks in the area from Kalaeloa to Kaena.

Your Committees received testimony from the Waianae Coast Neighborhood Board No. 24, Wild Dolphin Foundation, and a private individual in support of this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted testimony in opposition to this measure; however, in oral testimony, the Department made some positive suggestions to amend this measure.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the requirement for the preparation of an environmental impact statement;

(2) Requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources to designate an ocean recreation management area in the region from Kalaeloa to Kaena;

(3) Requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources to prepare and adopt rules for managing the ocean recreation management area;

(4) Deleting the appropriation for the preparation of an environmental impact statement; and

(5) Deleting the January 17, 2006 repeal provision in the measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 416, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 416, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair

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HERMINA MORITA, Chair