STAND. COM. REP. NO. 308

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1097
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Economic Development and Water, Land, and
Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1097 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TIMBER MANAGEMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the use of
revenues accrued from harvesting forest products on State lands
and sales of tree seedlings from State nurseries for the
reforestation and management of harvested areas, enhanced
management of forest reserves, and environmental education and
training programs.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this
measure from the Department of Agriculture, the Department of
Hawaiian Home Lands, the Department of Land and Natural
Resources, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, the
University of Hawai`i Environmental Center, the Big Island Farm
Bureau, the Hawai`i Forestry Industry Association, the Hawaii
Society of American Foresters, The Nature Conservancy of Hawai`i,
and C.A.M. Resource Management.

     Your Committees find that as the forest industry expands
with the establishment of tree plantations on former sugar cane
lands, the State must take a leadership role in making forest
resources available, in reforesting and managing plantation
forests in a responsible manner, and in working with the
communities impacted by forest activities.


 
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     Your Committees further find that although the sale of
forest products could generate a substantial amount of revenue
for the State, current budgets allow for only sixty acres to be
reforested annually.  Your Committees believe this measure will
direct this expanding source of revenue from the sale of forest
products to critical reforestation, improved resource management,
and enhanced public education efforts.

     Your Committees have amended this measure to make technical
amendments to conform to standard drafting style and conformed
statutory material to current law.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Economic Development and Water, Land, and Hawaiian
Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in
accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1097, as amended
herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form
attached hereto as S.B. No. 1097, S.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Economic
                                   Development and Water, Land,
                                   and Hawaiian Affairs,



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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair            LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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