Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 79 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Harbors Division of the Department of Transportation to proceed with executing the ten-year lease approved by the Department of Land and Natural Resources for Pacific Shipyards International to continue to provide vital ship repair services to the maritime community from its existing Honolulu Harbor facility.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources authorized a ten-year lease on March 28, 2003 for Pacific Shipyards International, a ship repair company, to continue to operate at Pier 41. Your Committee finds that Honolulu Harbor is in need of a ship repair facility and Pier 41 is the only available facility at this time.

Your Committee has amended this measure by adding a request that if Pacific Shipyards International cannot be accommodated, then another suitable location for it be found in Honolulu Harbor.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 79, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 79, S.D. 1.