Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 3047 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to protect sensitive and cultural resources by requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to map inadvertently discovered burial sites using a global positioning system device and record the location of the burial site and the site to which the remains are reinterred, if any.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs testified in support of this bill. DLNR supported the intent of this measure.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3047 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.