STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1558

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.C.R. No. 49

       H.D. 1

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 49, H.D. 1, entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING FULL PRESERVATION OF UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS AIR STATION EWA AS A NATIONAL MONUMENT, MUSEUM, AND RESTORED PARK FOR THE STATE OF HAWAII,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Urge the President of the United States, Secretary of Defense, Secretary of the Interior, and the United States Navy to preserve a portion of United States Marine Corps Air Station Ewa as a National Monument; and

     (2)  Request the United States Navy and its private, public, and nonprofit partners to proceed with and the Department of Land and Natural Resources to report on the research, battlefield analysis, and other activities necessary to designate an appropriate boundary within Ewa Field for nomination to the Hawaii State and National Registers of Historic Places.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Kailua Neighborhood Board, and two concerned individuals.  Written testimony presented to the Committees may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

     Your Committees find that the historical significance of United States Marine Corps Air Station Ewa is extensive and deserves to be protected.  Specifically, your Committees also find that it is important to preserve the land, buildings, and structures at United States Marine Corps Air Station Ewa that played a role during World War II and the attack on Pearl Harbor so that those pieces of Hawaii's history can be studied by future generations and historians.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Public Safety and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 49, H.D. 1, and recommend its adoption.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Economic Development and Technology and Public Safety and Military Affairs,

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair

____________________________ CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair