STAND. COM. REP. NO. 870

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 24

       S.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 S.C.R. No. 24 entitled:

"SENATE 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 urge full preservation of United States Marine Corps Air Station Ewa as a national monument, museum, and restored park for the State of Hawaii.

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Department of Land and Natural Resources, State of Hawaii Office of Veterans Services, Save Ewa Field, Kailua Neighborhood Board, and three concerned individuals.  Comments on this measure were submitted by Historic Hawaii Foundation.  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 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.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Urging that the Legislature support the preservation of the Marine Corps Air Station Ewa rather than the President of the United States, the United States Secretary of Defense, and the United States Secretary of the Interior;

     (2)  Requesting Hawaii's congressional delegation to support the efforts to preserve and memorialize Marine Corps Air Station Ewa;

     (3)  Transmitting certified copies of this measure to the Commander of the United States Pacific Fleet and the Hunt Development Group rather than to the President of the United States, the United States Secretary of Defense, and the United States Secretary of the Interior; and

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of clarity.

     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 S.C.R. No. 24, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 24, S.D. 1.

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