STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1608

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.C.R. No. 120

       S.D. 1

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Water and Land, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 120 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO CONDUCT A STUDY OF THE COMMERCIAL VESSEL PERMITS IN STATE SMALL BOAT HARBORS INVOLVING OCEAN-RELATED ACTIVITIES FOR OCEAN WATERS BETWEEN KALAELOA POINT AND KAENA POINT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a study of the state small boat harbor facility commercial permits for vessels engaged in ocean-use activities in ocean waters between Kalaeloa Point and Kaena Point that were in existence at the time of the moratorium in 2005, the uses for such permits, and the revenue generated and the current commercial vessel permits, the uses for such permits, and the revenue generated.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs and one individual.  Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources. 

     Act 6, Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2005 (Act 6), placed a moratorium on the issuance of new state small boat harbor facility commercial permits for vessels engaged in ocean-use activities in ocean waters between Kalaeloa Point and Kaena Point.  Your Committee finds that commercial ocean recreation activities between Kalaeloa Point and Kaena Point have continued to increase since 2005, despite the moratorium.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by additionally requesting that the Department of Land and Natural Resources consult with the Waianae coast community regarding the existing and future ocean-use activities.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 120, as amended herein, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 120, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water and Land,

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MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair