STAND. COM. REP. NO.  471-12

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

RE:   H.B. No. 2593

      H.D. 1

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. 2593 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMERGENCY RULES FOR THREATS TO NATURAL RESOURCES OR THE HEALTH OF THE ENVIRONMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide a means for agencies to exercise emergency rulemaking authority to address issues of imminent peril to natural resources or the environment.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, and the Coordinating Group on Alien Pest Species testified in support of this measure.  The Land Use Research Foundation testified in support of the intent of 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. 2593, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2593, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

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