Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 83, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to approve an exchange of private lands owned by the Aloha Council, Boy Scouts of America in Waikele, Oahu, for public lands on Oahu, Kauai, and the Big Island.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Board of Land and Natural Resources and the Aloha Council, Boy Scouts of America.

Your Committee finds that the land transfer will allow the Boy Scouts to go ahead with their plan to upgrade their campgrounds on lands that they had leased from the State, while allowing the State to gain three contiguous lots in a light industrial area, from which more revenue could be realized.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 83, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.