STAND. COM. REP. NO. 119-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: H.B. No. 2820
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 Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 2820 entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HAWAIIAN FISHPONDS,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The Department of Land and Natural Resources testified that it opposed this measure as written and suggested that, among other things, the language be amended to preserve existing cultural and historical sites, native plants and animals, and spring water sources.
Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by requiring that the Department of Land and Natural Resources:
(1) Preserve existing cultural and historical sites;
(2) Preserve existing native Hawaiian fish, plants, and endangered birds that presently inhabit the area; and
(3) Preserve existing water sources.
Your Committee has also removed the requirements that the Department of Land and Natural Resources:
(1) Provide a site for future public interpretation of the cultural, biological, and historical areas of the fishponds; and
(2) Provide for the reconstruction, rehabilitation, improvement, and stocking of the fishponds.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2820, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2820, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Hawaiian Affairs.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,
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____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair |
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