STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2779

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3122
                                        S.D. 1




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. 3122, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NONCOMMERCIAL PIERS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the administration
and regulation of noncommercial piers in Hawaii.

     Your Committee finds that the proliferation of illegal
noncommercial piers in the State has been a long standing problem
that has been mired in neglect and bureaucratic red tape.  The
inability of the State to administer and regulate the numerous
piers that dot our shoreline has resulted in the perpetuation of
the illegal status of some of these piers and the loss to the
State and to public land trust beneficiaries of revenues that
would have been collected but for the piers' illegality.

     This bill would resolve these problems by authorizing the
Board of Land and Natural Resources to act on its own initiative,
pursuant to established terms and conditions, without the prior
approval of the Governor and the Legislature, to systematically
rectify the legal status of, and require appropriate lease
payments for noncommercial piers situated on state lands.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your

 
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Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
3122, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

                                 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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