STAND. COM. REP. NO. 195

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 978
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred S.B. No. 978 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE FOREST STEWARDSHIP
     PROGRAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to improve the effectiveness
of the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Forest
Stewardship Program.

     Specifically, the measure enables the Forest Stewardship
Program to assist private landowners who own forest lands and who
wish to participate in forest management without a commitment in
perpetuity to the strict non-intervention policies of the Natural
Area Reserve System.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Land and Natural Resources, the State Forest
Stewardship Advisory Committee, the Hawaii Society of American
Foresters, and C.A.M. Resource Management.

     Your Committee believes that passage of the measure will
result in the proliferation of healthier forested areas in the
State.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and

 
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purpose of S.B. No. 978 and recommends that it pass Second
Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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