Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2716 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to conduct an appraisal of private lands contained within the South Kona wilderness area to be used as a basis for acquiring the private lands either through purchase or land exchange.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs and Trust for Public Land submitted testimony in support of this bill. DLNR opposed this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2716 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.