Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, 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 conduct an appraisal of private lands within the South Kona Wilderness Area to be used as a basis for acquiring the lands either through purchase or a land exchange.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, the Trust for Public Land, and Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter, testified in support of this bill. The Board of Land and Natural Resources opposed this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance 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 Third Reading.