STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2171

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2984
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Economic Development, to which was referred S.B. No. 2984
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OCEAN LEASING FOR COMMERCIAL
     TELECOMMUNICATION USES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department
of Land and Natural Resources to lease submerged lands for
commercial telecommunication uses without the approval of the
Legislature.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from GTE
Hawaiian Telephone and AT&T.  The Department of Land and Natural
Resources submitted comments on the measure.

     Your Committees find that the measure would provide for the
more efficient execution of submerged land lease negotiations
when used for commercial telecommunication purposes.

     Your Committees have amended the measure by making
technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity and
style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on 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. 2984, as

 
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amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the
form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2984, S.D. 1, and be referred to
the Committee on Ways and Means.

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



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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair          COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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