STAND. COM. REP. NO. 273

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1099
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1099 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE COASTAL AREAS PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to clarify which of the
coastal areas program functions shall be administered under the
provisions of Chapter 200, Hawaii Revised Statutes (HRS).

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR).
Hawaii's Thousand Friends testified in opposition.

     Your Committee finds that the coastal areas program was
transferred from the Department of Transportation by Act 272,
Session Laws of Hawaii 1991.  Capital improvement projects
typically funded under this program have included repair and
restoration of the Ala Wai Canal walls, Kuhio Beach structural
improvements, and sand replenishment.

     Your Committee further finds that in 1995, DLNR began to
incorporate this program's functions into other existing
department programs, in the interests of cost savings, and that
deleting these particular capital improvement functions from
section 200-3, HRS, is a housekeeping measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development that is attached to this

 
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report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 1099 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and
be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development,



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                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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