STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1392-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 3201
                                     S.D. 1
                                     H.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 Finance, to which was referred S.B. No.
3201, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A SCENIC HIGHWAYS SYSTEM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require the Director of
Transportation (Director) to establish design guidelines
governing construction and reconstruction of roads, streets, and
bridges.  The guidelines are to take into account economic,
safety, environmental, scenic, aesthetic, and historic impacts,
and effects on, and integration with the interests of adjacent
communities and alternative modes of transportation.

     In developing the guidelines the Director is also required
to solicit and consider the views of organizations and elected
officials including the State Foundation on Culture and the Arts,
and the Rural Development Councils.

     Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Historic Hawaii Foundation, and
Hanalei Heritage River submitted testimony in support of this
measure.  The Department of Transportation supported the intent
of the bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

     (1)  Replacing the term "standards" with "design
          guidelines"; and 

 
 
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     (2)  Making other technical, nonsubstantive amendments for
          clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No.
3201, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3201,
S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair