STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2211

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2299
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, and Economic
Development, to which was referred S.B. No. 2299 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HARBORS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the measure is to exclude Piers 1 and 2 at
Fort Armstrong from the Kakaako Community Development District.

     This measure, as introduced, also proposed to place small
boat harbors at Lahaina, Maui, and Kailua-Kona, Hawaii under the
Department of Transportation.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Mayor of the County of Maui, Maui County Council, and Maritime
Committee of the Chamber of Commerce.  Testimony in opposition
was received from the Department of Transportation, Department of
Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Community Development
Authority, Hawaii Boaters Political Action Association, and a
citizen.

     Your Committees find that the designation of Lahaina Boat
Harbor and Kailua-Kona Wharf as commercial harbors would result
in the administration of boating and recreation operations as a
commercial harbor, with no regard to the rights and welfare of
the primary users of these boating facilities.


 
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     Your Committees have amended the measure by deleting the
proposed amendments designating harbors and facilities at Lahaina
and Kailua-Kona as commercial harbors under the jurisdiction of
the Department of Transportation.  

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs and
Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and Economic Development that
are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with
the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2299, as amended herein, and
recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto
as S.B. No. 2299, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on
Ways and Means.

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



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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair            CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair



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LORRAINE INOUYE, Chair


 
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