STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2672

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3010

       S.D. 2

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3010, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to expedite the rehabilitation and replacement of state-owned bridges by providing temporary exemptions from certain state requirements.

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by Hawaii Reserves, Inc.; Brigham Young University–Hawaii; Polynesian Cultural Center; and Brigham Young University-Hawaii, Office of the Vice President.  Written comments in opposition of this measure were submitted by the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Office of Planning; Historic Hawaii Foundation; and Society for Hawaiian Archaeology.

     Your Committee finds that approximately thirty bridges under the jurisdiction of the Department of Transportation that are either functionally obsolete or structurally deficient are currently in the design phase for rehabilitation or replacement.  Your Committee further finds that the process for rehabilitation and replacement of many of these bridges needs to be expedited to ensure public safety.

     Your Committee notes the recommendation of the Department of Transportation that the measure be revised to include, at this time, only those bridge projects that are ready for implementation.

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Restricting the number of bridge repair projects to be exempt from various state requirements to those that are shovel ready;

     (2)  Correctly identifying the name of the bridge in Waimanalo as Inoaole Stream Bridge; and

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3010, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3010, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair