CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT NO.96

                            Honolulu, Hawaii
                                            , 1999

                            RE:   H.B. No. 1183
                                  H.D. 2
                                  S.D. 2
                                  C.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Conference on the disagreeing vote of the
House of Representatives to the amendments proposed by the Senate
in H.B. No. 1183, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, entitled:

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

having met, and after full and free discussion, has agreed to
recommend and does recommend to the respective Houses the final
passage of this bill in an amended form.

     The purpose of this bill is to:

     (1) Authorize beach restoration;

     (2) Create a Beach Restoration Special Fund and appropriate
         funds for beach restoration; and

     (3) Appropriate funds to conduct an engineering design and
         analysis of beach restoration at the designated
         shorelines of Honokowai, Kaaawa, and Sacred Falls.  


 
 
 
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     Your Committee finds that loss of sandy beaches is a major
environmental, social, and economic problem.  Nearly 25 percent
or 17 miles of sandy beaches on Oahu have been lost or severely
narrowed over the past 70 years.  Similar losses have occurred on
Maui, and to a lesser extent, Kauai and Hawaii.  To reverse this
loss, the Department of Land and Natural Resources and the
University of Hawaii Department of Geology and Geophysics
developed the Coastal Erosion Master Plan (COEMAP) in 1997, which
made technical and policy recommendations for shore and beach
management and protection.  

     Subsequently, the Department of Land and Natural Resources
established the Coastal Lands Program to implement the COEMAP
recommendations.  The Coastal Lands Program, in order to fully
carry out its mission, requires statutory authorization and
funding.  

     Your Committee on Conference revised the bill by:  

     (1) Amending the definition of coastal lands to include all
         lands within the the State Coastal Zone Management Area;
         provided that any leasing or development of public lands
         shall be limited to all fast lands up to one mile mauka
         of the shoreline and all submerged lands; 

     (2) Changing "public lands within the state coastal zone
         management area" to "public coastal lands" in the
         provisions relating to authority to lease lands,
         development of lands, and the sources of moneys for the
         Beach Restoration Special Fund; 

     (3) Limiting lease income for the Beach Restoration Special
         Fund to income from the lease of existing seawalls or
         revetments; 

     (4) Designating the amount of $250,000 for both
         appropriations from the Special Land and Development
         Fund and the Beach Restoration Special Fund; 

     (5) Removing appropriations for beach restoration at
         Honokowai Beach Park, Kaaawa Beach Park, and the Sacred
         Falls shoreline; 

     (6) Changing the effective date to July 1, 1999; and 

     (7) Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the
         purposes of style and clarity.  


 
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     Your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent
and purpose of H.B. No. 1183, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, as amended herein,
and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 1183, H.D. 2, S.D. 2, C.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted,

MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE        MANAGERS ON THE PART OF THE
           SENATE                              HOUSE
                                   
                                   
                                   
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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Co-Chair         ROMY M. CACHOLA, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Co-Chair       ROY M. TAKUMI, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair             BRIAN SCHATZ, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
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JAN YAGI BUEN, Member              EZRA R. KANOHO, Member
                                   
                                   
                                   
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BOB NAKATA, Member                 CYNTHIA HENRY THIELEN, Member



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JOE S. TANAKA, Member



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WHITNEY T. ANDERSON, Member