STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2219

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2525

       S.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Water and Land and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2525 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR ACQUISITION OF A PUBLIC RIGHT OF ACCESS TO HAENA BEACH PARK,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate matching funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to allow the County of Kauai to acquire a safe public right of access to Haena Beach Park.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources and one individual.

     Your Committees find that Haena, Kauai has been identified by the Department of Land and Natural Resources as having a high statewide significance.  The ahupuaa of Haena has been designated as a community based subsistence fishery management area.  Access Road "E" abuts and provides access to traditional fishing grounds and the community based subsistence fishery management area.  Lateral access to Haena Beach Park from Access Road "E" has traditionally been provided across the shoreline.  However, the topography of this traditional access is unsafe during normal high wave activity of the annual winter season.  It is further becoming unsafe as a result of erosion and development activity along the Haena coast.

     Your Committees amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purpose of clarity.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2525, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2525, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land and Intergovernmental and Military Affairs,

____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

____________________________ CLAYTON HEE, Chair