STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1653

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 250

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 250, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ALOHA TOWER DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to allow the Aloha Tower Development Corporation to assist the Department of Transportation, Harbors Division, in the development of needed commercial harbor facilities at Honolulu Harbor.

     Your Committee received comments in support of the measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Aloha Tower Development Corporation, the Department of Transportation, the Hawaii Harbor User Group, the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.

     Your Committee finds that a partnership between the Department of Transportation and the Aloha Tower Development Corporation for the development of Honolulu Harbor infrastructure projects will lead to an expedited execution of the projects and hence meet the critical demand for harbor expansion and upgrades.

     Your Committee amended the bill to allow Aloha Tower Development Corporation to assist the Hawaii Community Development Authority in the development of projects in the Kewalo basin and its adjacent lands.

     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 H.B. No. 250, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 250, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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ROSALYN H. BAKER, Chair