STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1755-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   S.B. No. 3138

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3138, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WAIANAE COAST,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to extend the deadline of the baseline environmental study required to establish the boundaries of an ocean recreation management area between Kalaeloa Point and Kaena Point on the Waianae Coast of Oahu and appropriate additional funds for the continued preparation of the study.

     Several concerned individual supported this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2020; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3138, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3138, S.D. 1, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair