STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2907

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2152
                                        H.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2152, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HUNTING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to expand public hunting
areas by adding to the definition of "public hunting area" under
section 183D-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes: game management areas,
forest reserves and surrendered lands, natural area reserves,
restricted watersheds, cooperative game management areas,
military training areas, unencumbered state lands, designated
sanctuaries, and other lands designated by the Board.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and ILWU
Local 142.

     Your Committee finds that this measure is in support of the
public hunting program and the hunting community.  Hunters have a
crucial role in containing the populations of game mammals, which
is essential to maintaining the natural balance of the ecological
system.  Excessive numbers of game mammals damage forested
watersheds and native ecosystems.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose

 
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of H.B. No. 2152, H.D. 1, 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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