STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2693

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2108
                                        S.D. 2




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2108, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PUBLIC LAND TRUST,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Auditor to
facilitate the identification of the lands within the public land
trust by completing a comprehensive inventory of the lands.

     Your Committee finds that the scope of the public lands and
their exact identification have never been made.  Having an
accurate inventory is crucial to the successful management of the
lands, especially as the State has a trust obligation in regard
to the lands.  This bill will require the Auditor to complete a
comprehensive inventory of the lands, including a mapping
database and identification by both tax map key number and by
original source of the lands.  This task will also include an
inventory of lands that have been alienated from the public land
trust, including lands transferred to the counties and the
University of Hawaii.  The Auditor is to complete the task by
December 31, 2001.

     The funds appropriated for the inventory are to be
supplemented by matching funds from the Office of Hawaiian
Affairs.  Your Committee finds that this is appropriate as the
Office of Hawaiian Affairs is a beneficiary of the public lands
trust and will benefit from the inventory.

 
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     Your Committee has amended this bill by making the amount of
the appropriation blank for purposes of promoting continuing
discussion.

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2108, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2108, S.D.
2.

                                 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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