STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2478

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 2196

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Economic Development and Taxation and Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 2196 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES ON OCEAN WATERS,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Land and Natural Resources to regulate commercial activity on ocean waters, not including those functions of the Department of Transportation under chapter 266, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and four individuals.  The Ocean Tourism Coalition and Paradise Cruise, Ltd., testified in opposition.

 

     Your Committees find that new and expanded developments in residential and visitor destination areas along Hawaii's coastline have resulted in increased commercial activity on ocean waters.  More commercial activity has led, in turn, to conflicts among users and adverse effects on the marine environment.  Your Committees have addressed the concern that this measure would add another layer of regulation, and believe that, as amended, this measure is a step in beginning to resolve these and other issues in a comprehensive manner.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure accordingly, by:

 

     (1)  Authorizing DLNR to regulate commercially permitted use of both governmental and private boating facilities, and commercial activity in private marinas; and

 

     (2)  Making the effective date July 1, 2030, for the purpose of continued discussions.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development and Taxation and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2196, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2196, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development and Taxation and Water and Land,

 

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CLAYTON HEE, Chair

 

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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair