Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 538, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to clarify, update, restructure, and refine the administration, implementation, and enforcement of the chapter 205A, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to coastal zone management.

Testimony in support of this bill was submitted by the Office of Planning of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, the County of Hawaii Planning Department, and the Non-government Subcommittee of the Marine and Coastal Zone Management Advisory Group. The Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter, proposed amendments and testified in support of the bill's intent.

Hawaii's Thousand Friends submitted testimony in opposition to the bill.

Your Committee finds that providing public notice of special management area minor permits is consistent with the intent of this bill, since it increases the public's awareness of activities that affect Hawaii's coastal zones.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 538, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 538, H.D. 2.