Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred S.B. No. 1028, S.D. 2, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require the Hawaii Community Development Authority (HCDA) to develop a consolidation plan for transferring the responsibility for redeveloping the Kalaeloa Community Development District from the Barbers Point Naval Air Station Redevelopment Commission (Commission) to HCDA.

The Board of Water Supply of the City and County of Honolulu testified in support of this measure. Opposing testimony was submitted by the Commission and the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. HCDA supported the original intent of this measure. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported this bill with amendments, and the City and County of Honolulu Department of Planning and Permitting offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting its substance and inserting the substance of H.B. No. 552, H.D. 1, which was reported earlier this session by your Committee and the Committee on Transportation. H.B. No. 552, H.D. 1, transfers the responsibilities of the Commission and the Aloha Tower Development Corporation to HCDA. In addition, your Committee further amended this bill by:

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1028, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1028, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.