STAND. COM. REP. NO.  903-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2613

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2613 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to assist the Harbors Division of the Department of Transportation in more efficiently implementing needed maritime projects by exempting submerged lands within the State commercial harbors system from the permit and site plan approval requirements as they relate to submerged lands within a conservation district.

 

     The Department of Transportation testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and numerous concerned individuals testified in opposition to this measure.  The Environmental Center of the University of Hawaii provided comments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2613, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2613, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

 

 

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair