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. 83 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this resolution requests that the Board of land and Natural Resources meet with all stakeholders and users at Keehi Lagoon to develop a conceptual master plan which utilizes

unuitilized submerged and fast lands for development and to lease these unuitlized lands.

Your committee finds that in 1990, an EIS was completed for the Keehi Lagoon Recreation Plan and approved by the Governor which included a substantial increase in recreational and commercial berths. The objectives for Keehi Lagoon included the use of private sector funds to implement the recommendation of the Recreation Plan by leasing unimproved areas to a private developer which would result in generation of revenues for the State.

Your committee further finds that private companies have expressed an interest in managing or developing these underutilized areas. This presents the State with great potential benefit for recreational and visitor industry.

Your committee also finds that lands in or around Keehi Lagoon are presently under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation, and should be considered for transfer to the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Department of Transportation, and a private citizen provided testimony in support of this resolution. Hawaii's Thousand Friends offered testimony in opposition to the measure.

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. 83 and recommends its adoption.