STAND. COM. REP. NO. 976

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1703
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred H.B. No. 1703 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAIMANALO,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to extend the sunset date of
the Act authorizing the Department of Land and Natural Resources
to negotiate long-term leases with revocable permittees farming
in the Waimanalo area.

     The Board of Land and Natural Resources commented on the
measure.

     Your Committee finds that most Waimanalo farmers have
successfully negotiated long-term leases, but that several still
desire leases and are at various stages of the process.

     Your Committee believes that extending the sunset date of
Act 257, Session Laws of Hawaii 1996, to July 1, 2001, will
provide the remaining permittees with the opportunity to
negotiate a long-term lease suitable to their needs.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 1703 and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.


 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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