STAND. COM. REP. NO.  638

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 122

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 122, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO RENEWABLE ENERGY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to encourage the development of renewable energy facilities in Hawaii by extending to July 1, 2020, the exemption for renewable energy projects from subdivision requirements on state agricultural or conservation lands. 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, Castle & Cooke Hawaii, and several concerned individuals supported this bill.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 122, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair