STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1685

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.R. No. 81
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.R.
No. 81 entitled:

     "SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING DEVELOPMENT OF A STATE OCEAN
     AND COASTAL RESOURCES PLAN AND STATE WATERS RECREATION
     MASTER PLAN,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this Resolution is to request the Department
of Business, Economic Development and Tourism to develop a State
Ocean and Coastal Resources Plan including a State Waters
Recreation Master Plan.

     Your Committee finds that our State is heavily dependent
upon the ocean as a source of recreation and employment.  Because
the ocean is a limited, if not, dwindling resource, these
interests sometimes find themselves competing for the same
limited resources.  Additionally, a stagnant economy does little
to assist in the resolution of such competing interests.

     A State Ocean and Coastal Resources Plan would resolve some
of these problems by applying natural resource accounting methods
to prudently manage our ocean resources to benefit all interested
parties.  A State Waters Recreation Master Plan would also help
in defining and regulating the growing recreational use of the
ocean.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.R. No. 81 and
recommends its adoption.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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