STAND. COM. REP. NO. 306

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1667
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Ocean Recreation and Marine Resources and
Water and Land Use, to which was referred H.B. No. 1667 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is shift the burden of notifying
the public about applications for shoreline certifications from
the affected property owners to the applicant.  This measure
amends the coastal zone management law by requiring applicants
for shoreline certifications to mail copies of their application
for certification, including proposed maps and photographs, to:

     (1)  The County Planning Department; and

     (2)  Neighboring property owners within three hundred feet
          of the applicant's property.

     Your Committees received testimony in favor of this bill
from the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR),
Hawaii's Thousand Friends, and the Sierra Club.

     Testimony opposed to this measure was submitted by the
Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (DBEDT)
and the City & County of Honolulu's Department of Planning &
Permitting.


 
 
 
 
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     Your Committees have amended this bill by specifying that
only shoreline properties are required to be notified of
applications for shoreline certifications.

     Your Committees find that this bill will improve community
input within the shoreline certification process through the
requirement of additional notices to property owners that are
directly affected.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Ocean Recreation and Marine Resources and Water and
Land Use that are attached to this report, your Committees are in
accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1667, as amended
herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form
attached hereto as H.B. No. 1667, H.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Ocean Recreation
                                   and Marine Resources and Water
                                   and Land Use,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ROMY M. CACHOLA, Chair             ROY M. TAKUMI, Chair