Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2266, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

1. Define the term "accretion" and clarify that the definition of the term "public lands" may include accreted lands;
2. Require the Office of Environmental Quality Control (OEQC) to inform the public of applications for registration of beachfront accretion;
3. Limit the registration of land by accretion to the State, except for lands accreted within private property lines which restore eroded areas; and
4. Limit the authority of the Land Use Commission to designate accreted lands to any land use district except conservation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the bill from the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii's Thousands Friends, Life of the Land, and private citizens. Kamehameha Schools testified in opposition. The Board of Land and Natural Resources commented on the measure.

Your Committee has amended this bill by making technical, nonsubstantive changes for clarity and style.

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. 2266, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2266, H.D. 2.