STAND. COM. REP. NO.  405-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2154

      H.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 2154, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREA USE PERMITS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to assist the Department of Transportation in the effective and efficient operation of its airport facilities by providing a temporary exemption from special management area minor and use permit requirements for airport facility development that is necessary to comply with Federal Aviation Administration requirements.

The Office of Planning of the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; the Department of Transportation; and the General Contractors Association of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.  Life of the Land and the Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter, testified in opposition to this measure.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2154, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2154, H.D. 2.

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

____________________________ DENNY COFFMAN, Chair

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair