STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2264

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2301
                                        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 and Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2301 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HARBORS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to establish a definition for
maritime lands.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Transportation (DOT), Maritime Committee of the
Chamber of Commerce, and CSX Lines.  Testimony in opposition to
this measure was received from the Department of Land and Natural
Resources.

     Your Committees find that the definition establishes a
criterion for current and future land use decisions regarding
lands required for harbor activity in Hawaii.  By defining
maritime lands in this manner, more lands will be available for
harbor related activities that are dependent on being adjacent to
water.

     Your Committees have amended the measure by clarifying that
maritime land is land required for commercial and industrial
activities that are dependent on being adjacent to the harbor,
and that the DOT has the authority to use, permit, regulate, and
make charges on maritime lands.  Your Committees have also

 
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amended the measure by making technical, nonsubstantive
amendments.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs 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. 2301, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. 2301, 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
                                   and Water, Land, and Hawaiian
                                   Affairs,



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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair            CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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