Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Transportation and Water and Land Use, to which was referred S.B. No. 754 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to give preference to commercial and industrial activities that are dependent on being adjacent to harbors in determining the use of Hawaii's scarce and limited waterfront lands by requiring the Board of Land and Natural Resources (BLNR) to establish a maritime use class in the classification of public lands.

The Chamber of Commerce, Maritime Committee and Taylor Consultants testified in support of the bill. BLNR and Hawaii's Thousand Friends testified in opposition to the bill.

Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to facilitate further discussion.

Other technical, nonsubstantive amendments were made for clarity and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Water and Land Use that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 754, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 754, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.