STAND. COM. REP. NO.  423

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 393

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Health, to which was referred H.B. No. 393, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN FISHPONDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to streamline the permitting process for restoration, repair, maintenance, and operation of na loko ia (Hawaiian fishponds) by waiving the Department of Health requirement to obtain water quality certification for any person who has already received notice of authorization to proceed from the Department of Land and Natural Resources Office of Conservation and Coastal Lands under the Statewide General Programmatic General Permit with regard to the loko ia. 

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Honua Consulting, Panaewa Hawaiian Home Lands Community Association, and many individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Health, Loko Ia Consulting, and the Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii provided comments.

 

     Your Committee respectfully requests the Department of the Attorney General to evaluate the sufficiency of whether the proposed language from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, as reflected in this bill, helps streamline the process and to provide this information to the Committee on Finance.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 393, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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DELLA AU BELATTI, Chair