CONFERENCE COMMITTEE REPORT NO. 68

                            Honolulu, Hawaii
                                            , 1999

                            RE:   H.B. No. 827
                                  H.D. 3
                                  S.D. 1
                                  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. 827, H.D. 3, S.D. 1, entitled:

    "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC 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 stimulate tourism in east
Hawaii by creating incentives for reinvestment in the resort
infrastructure of the Banyan Drive resort area of Hilo, Hawaii,
by authorizing the Department of Land and Natural Resources
(DLNR) to issue new, up-to-fifty-year leases to existing lessees
in the Banyan Drive resort area.

     It is the intent of your Committee on Conference that DLNR
consider "substantial improvements" in the issuance of any new
leases to existing lessees of the Banyan Drive resort area.


 
 
 
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     Your Committee on Conference has amended this bill by:

     (1) Clarifying that any requirements for property
         improvements in new leases be for substantial
         improvements; and

     (2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style
         and clarity.

     Your Committee on Conference is in accord with the intent
and purpose of H.B. No. 827, H.D. 3, S.D. 1, as amended herein,
and recommends that it pass Final Reading in the form attached
hereto as H.B. No. 827, H.D. 3, S.D. 1, 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         JERRY L. CHANG, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Co-Chair       ROMY M. CACHOLA, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair             SCOTT K. SAIKI, Co-Chair
                                   
                                   
                                   
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JAN YAGI BUEN, Member              ROBERT N. HERKES, Member
                                   
                                   
                                   
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JONATHAN CHUN, Member              GALEN FOX, Member



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JOSEPH TANAKA, Member

 
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WHITNEY ANDERSON, Member