STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1264

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 378

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 378, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BEACH NOURISHMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide an unspecified sum of matching funds for the environmental impact statement associated with the planned beach nourishment project at Kaanapali beach on the island of Maui.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from Kaanapali Operations Association, Inc.

 

     Your Committee finds that the restoration of Kaanapali beach is necessary to preserve a vital cultural, environmental, and recreational resource for residents and visitors on the island of Maui.  Your Committee further finds that the cost of the environmental impact statement associated with the planned beach nourishment project at Kaanapali beach is estimated to be $800,000.  The intent of the appropriation in this measure is to match the $400,000 that Kaanapali Operations Association, Inc., has committed towards the environmental impact statement.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the funds shall be appropriated out of the beach restoration special fund.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 378, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 378, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair