STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1232-08

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

 

RE:   S.B. No. 3138

      S.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 3138, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to extend the deadline of a 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 provide additional funding for its continued preparation. 

 

     Several concerned individuals testified in support of this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources provided comments.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3138, S.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs and Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

 

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HERMINA MORITA, Chair

 

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KEN ITO, Chair