STAND. COM. REP. NO. 925

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 55
                                        S.D. 1




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 S.C.R. No. 55 entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE AUDITOR TO
     CONDUCT A MANAGEMENT AUDIT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND
     NATURAL RESOURCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Auditor to
conduct a management audit of the Department of Land and Natural
Resources.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology,
and the Public Employees Management Association of Hawaii.  The
Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted comments on
the measure.

     Your Committee finds that as the state-appointed guardian of
public lands, the Department of Land and Natural Resources is
charged with the wide-ranging responsibility to protect, manage,
and preserve all lands and activities under its jurisdiction.
Reports by the Auditor over the last seven years regarding the
Department of Land and Natural Resources have indicated that the
department has not been fully accomplishing its mandated
responsibilities.  Consequently, your Committee believes that a
management audit is in order to ascertain the progress made by
the Department of Land and Natural Resources in implementing the
Auditor's past recommendations and any other management

 
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directives recently undertaken to comply with its mandated
purpose.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by:

     (1)  Properly identifying the titles of the various
          divisions of the Department of Land and Natural
          Resources that are named in the measure; and

     (2)  Clarifying that the review of personnel management
          practices includes a review of both excluded and civil
          service employees.

     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 concurs with the intent and
purpose of S.C.R. No. 55, as amended herein, and recommends that
it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form
attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 55, S.D. 1.

                                   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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