Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2575, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to enable the completion of a baseline environmental study of the Waianae Coast ocean area.

Pursuant to Act 6, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, the Legislature required the Department of Land and Natural Resources to prepare a baseline environmental study of the area from Kalaeloa point to Kaena point for the purpose of designating the boundaries of and adopting rules for an ocean recreation management area. However, the study was not completed due to a lack of funding.

Your Committee understands that the cumulative economic, environmental, social, and cultural impacts of the growing west Oahu population and visitor industry remain matters of great concern to the communities along the Waianae coast. This measure will enable the Department of Land and Natural Resources to complete the baseline environmental study.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2575, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2575, S.D. 2.