HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

THE TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2005

COMMITTEE ON WATER, LAND, & OCEAN RESOURCES

Rep. Ezra Kanoho, Chair

Rep. Brian Schatz, Vice Chair

Rep. Lyla B. Berg, Ph.D.	Rep. Tommy Waters
Rep. Mele Carroll	Rep. Colleen Rose Meyer
Rep. Cindy Evans	Rep. Cynthia Thielen
Rep. Hermina M. Morita

NOTICE OF HEARING

DATE:	Friday, March 18, 2005
TIME:	8:30 a.m.
PLACE:	Conference Room 423 State Capitol 415 South Beretania Street

A G E N D A

SB 212 SD2 (SSCR915)	RELATING TO ENVIRONMENT. Appropriates funds to the commission on Water Resource Management for a hydrologist position and a geologist position. (SD2)	WLO, FIN
SB 1301 SD2 (SSCR714)	RELATING TO OCEAN RECREATION. Requires the department of land and natural resources to consider user conflicts, address environmental concerns, and balance commercial activities along the coast in issuing permits for commercial ocean activities on the Waianae coast. Creates the west Oahu ocean resource management area. (SD2)	WLO, FIN
SB 1081 SD2 (SSCR994)	MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR POUHALA MARSH EDUCATION AND JOB TRAINING CENTER. Provides funding to match initiative funding to develop an education and job training center for Pouhala marsh. (SD2)	WLO, FIN
SB 1891 SD2 (SSCR930)	RELATING TO BOATING. Requires an owner of a commercial vessel moored in a state small boat harbor to pay a minimum fee based on a percentage of gross revenues derived from the use of the vessel. Expands the types of fees and penalties established through rules relating to harbors to be deposited into the Boating Special Fund. (SD2)	WLO, FIN
SB 1884 SD1 (SSCR648)	RELATING TO PUBLIC ACCESS TO SHORELINES. Requires counties to adopt ordinances that require subdividers or developers to connect existing accesses to the shoreline with lateral public access along the shoreline as a condition to final approval of a subdivision. (SD1)	WLO, JUD
SB 1897 SD2 (SSCR931)	RELATING TO LAND CONSERVATION. Increases conveyance tax on a sliding scale. Requires 10% of real estate conveyance tax collected be deposited into the land conservation fund. Allows grants to state agencies, counties, and nonprofit land conservation organizations to acquire interest in lands having a value as a resource to the State. Provides stable funding mechanism for the natural area reserves system. (SD2)	WLO, FIN

DECISION MAKING TO FOLLOW

PERSONS WISHING TO TESTIFY ARE REQUESTED TO SUBMIT 35 COPIES OF THEIR TESTIMONY AT LEAST 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE HEARING TO: (1) THE COMMITTEE'S VICE CHAIR IN ROOM 425, STATE CAPITOL, OR (2) THE HOUSE SGT.-AT-ARMS TESTIMONY DROP OFF BOX IN THE TURNAROUND AREA OF THE CAPITOL BASEMENT PARKING LOT. TESTIMONY MAY ALSO BE FAXED IF LESS THAN 5 PAGES IN LENGTH TO THE HOUSE SGT.-AT-ARMS OFFICE AT: 586-6501 (OAHU) OR 1-800-535-3859 (NEIGHBOR ISLANDS). WHEN FAXING, PLEASE INDICATE TO WHOM THE TESTIMONY IS BEING SUBMITTED, THE DATE AND TIME OF THE HEARING, AND THE REQUIRED NO. OF COPIES THAT IS NEEDED FOR SUBMITTAL.

IT IS ALSO REQUESTED THAT THE COPIES BE ON ONE SIDE OF AN 8-1/2" X 11" SHEET. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT 586-6308.

IF YOU REQUIRE SPECIAL ASSISTANCE OR AUXILIARY AIDS AND/OR SERVICES TO PARTICIPATE IN THE PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS OF THE STATE HOUSE (I.E., SIGN LANGUAGE INTERPRETER, WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBILITY, OR PARKING DESIGNATED FOR THE DISABLED), PLEASE CONTACT THE COMMITTEE CLERK AT LEAST 24 HOURS PRIOR TO THE HEARING SO ARRANGEMENTS CAN BE MADE.

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Rep. Ezra R. Kanoho

Chair