Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 2857 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to facilitate the protection of historic properties, aviation artifacts, and burial sites by making it a civil and administrative violation to knowingly violate the conditions of an approved mitigation plan that includes monitoring and preservation plans.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and Pae Aina Communications, LLC, testified in support of this bill.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2857 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.