Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2914, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expedite the construction, installation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of civil defense warning or signal devices and sirens.

Specifically, this measure excludes civil defense warning or signal devices and sirens from the definition of "development" for purposes of the coastal management zone.

Your Committee finds that civil defense warning or signal devices and sirens are critical to alert the public to and warn them of potentially dangerous events. When these devices and sirens are placed within the coastal zone, the permitting process often leads to delays in the construction, installation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of these devices and sirens. As they are critical to communication and to the safety and well-being of the public during emergency periods, your Committee believes that all efforts should be made to expedite the construction, installation, maintenance, repair and replacement of these devices and sirens by excluding them from the definition of "development" for purposes of the coastal zone management program.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2914, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs.