Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 1476, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to direct the Department of Land and Natural Resources to renew its efforts to acquire through land exchange certain lands adjacent to the Kohala Historical Sites State Monument.

Act 66, Session Laws of Hawaii 1992, sought to preserve and protect a certain cluster of valuable historic sites in north Kohala on the island of Hawaii, designated as the Kohala Historical Sites State Monument. Act 66 further directed the Department of Land and Natural Resources to acquire by land exchange certain specifically designated additional parcels of land adjacent to the Kohala Historical Sites State Monument to ensure access to and provide a buffer for the Kohala Historical Site State Monument.

Your Committee finds however that, to date, the Department of Land and Natural Resources has not been able to consummate a land exchange for the designated parcels due to the unavailability of State owned lands in north Kohala that will satisfy the needs and concerns of both the State and the private landowner. This measure directs the Department of Land and Natural Resources to renew its efforts to acquire the desired parcels by land exchange.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making it effective upon its approval.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1476, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1476, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.