Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 17 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this resolution is to obtain the prior approval of the Legislature to permit the lease of easement for submerged lands at Maunalua, Honolulu, Oahu, for maintenance of the Hawaii Kai Marina entrance channel purposes.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this resolution from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that in 1995, the Legislature appropriated funds to dredge the entrance channel to the privately-owned Hawaii Kai Marina. In 1998, the Board of land and Natural Resources (BOARD) through the Conservation District Use Application (CDUA) process required the Hawaii Kai Marina Association (HKMA) to obtain an easement from the Department of Land and Natural Resources for all future dredging and maintenance of the erosion control groin. HKMA submitted an application for an easement on June 11, 2001 and approved by the Board on July 13, 2001.

This resolution meets the requirement of section 171-53, HRS.

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 concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 17 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Finance.