Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1816, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide adequate public notification of proposed shoreline certifications by requiring the applicant to mail copies of the application to:

(1) The county planning department;

(2) Abutting property owners; and

(3) The Office of Environmental Quality Control for

This bill also allows notification to be sent to a board or association of an affected condominium property regime or cooperative housing cooperation in lieu of individual owners.

The Office of Planning and the Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter, supported this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources commented on this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by allowing, instead of requiring, the Board of Land and Natural Resources to adopt rules pursuant to chapter 91 to implement the new law.

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 H.B. No. 1816, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1816, H.D. 2.