Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 453 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require the Director of the Office of Planning to appoint one member to the Public Advisory Board for Coastal Zone Management Program from a list of three nominees submitted by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Life of the Land, Oahu Council Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, and a member of the Maui County Council testified in support of this measure. The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism provided comments. The Department of Land and Natural Resources did not support this bill.

Your Committees find that there should be guarantees provided to the Hawaiian community that their needs and interests will be represented during any discussions dealing with the Coastal Zone Management Program, especially because much of the public land trust established for the benefit of Hawaiians fall within the state's coastal zone areas.

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. 453 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.