STAND. COM. REP. NO. 204

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1215
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1215 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MARITIME,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to change the boundaries of
the Kakaako community development district to exclude Pier 1 and
Pier 2 at Fort Armstrong.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii.  Testimony in
opposition was received from the Hawaii Community Development
Authority and Hawaii Boaters Political Action Committee.

     Your Committees find that Piers 1 and 2 at Fort Armstrong
include vital and unique cargo facilities that cannot be
relocated and would be prohibitively expensive to duplicate.
Piers 1 and 2 must be protected and preserved as a maritime
facility.  By excluding Piers 1 and 2, this measure relegates
them to the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation
which would be more effective for protection and preservation of
the maritime function of Piers 1 and 2.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to
this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and

 
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purpose of S.B. No. 1215 and recommend 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 Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs and
                                   Transportation and
                                   Intergovernmental Affairs,



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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair                COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair



 
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