STAND. COM. REP. NO. 876-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2301
                                     S.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred S.B.
No. 2301, S.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HARBORS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill, as received by your Committee, is
to establish a definition for maritime lands.

     Your Committee finds that no definition for the term
"maritime lands" exists, and that such definition will help the
Department of Transportation in the management of lands adjacent
to harbors.

     This bill proposes that "maritime land" be defined as
follows: "marine land, which is any land required for commercial
and industrial activities that are dependent on being adjacent to
the harbor."

     Testimonies in support of this bill were received from CSX
Lines, Young Brothers, Limited, Hawaii Boaters Political Action
Association, Boats/Hawaii, and Kaneohe Bay Association of
Mariners.  Hawaii's Thousand Friends supported the intent of this
measure, but suggested that language and examples be added that
identify what types of uses are permitted and encouraged.  The
University of Hawaii suggested that only those lands that are
adjacent to harbors and are in the Urban land use category be
given to the Department of Transportation to manage.


 
 
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     The Board of Land and Natural Resources and the City and
County of Honolulu, Department of Planning and Permitting, oppose
this measure.
 
     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
2301, S.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be
referred to the Committee on Water and Land Use.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation,



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                                   KENNETH T. HIRAKI, Chair