Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 2439 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expedite the construction, installation, and maintenance of civil defense warning or signal devices and sirens by exempting them from the definition of "development" for purposes of coastal zone management.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Defense.

Your Committees recognize that civil defense warning or signal devices and sirens are critical to alerting the public to potentially dangerous events and that all efforts should be made to expedite the construction, installation, and maintenance of these devices and sirens. However, the construction, installation, and replacement of the devices and sirens is frequently delayed by permit requirements that are not justified given the vital role they provide for the public.

Your Committees find that this measure is necessary to expedite the construction, installation, and maintenance of civil defense warning or signal devices and sirens by exempting them from the definition of "development" for purposes of coastal zone management.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2439, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.