STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1274

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 171

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 171 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE GOVERNOR TO WITHDRAW CERTAIN EXECUTIVE ORDERS SETTING ASIDE PUBLIC LANDS WHERE THE RECEIVING AGENCY HAS FAILED TO USE OR HAS UNDERUTILIZED THE LANDS FOR THE PURPOSE SPECIFIED,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the Governor to withdraw certain Executive Orders, thereby returning public land that is unused or underused to the public lands inventory of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Transportation.

     Your Committees acknowledge that portions of the public land in the areas identified in this measure are being put to productive uses.  However, the vast majority of the public land in the areas identified in this measure are unused or underused and should be made available to other agencies.

     At the public hearing on this measure, the Department of Land and Natural Resources presented testimony that identified five additional Executive Orders setting aside public land to state agencies that are not being used or are being under utilized for the specified purposes.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1)  Adopting the suggested amendments of the Department of Land and Natural Resources, which request the Governor to withdraw five additional Executive Orders setting aside public land to state agencies and return public land subject to those Executive Orders to the Department; and

(2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 171, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 171, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, and Housing and Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair

____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair