STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1519

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 101

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 101 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT COVERING A PORTION OF STATE SUBMERGED LANDS PURSUANT TO SECTION 171-53, HAWAII REVISED STATUTES, RELATING TO RECLAMATION AND DISPOSITION OF SUBMERGED OR RECLAIMED PUBLIC LAND.,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize, pursuant to section 171-53, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the issuance of a fifty-five-year nonexclusive easement covering a portion of state submerged lands for seawall and step purposes.

     Your Committee finds that the successor trustee of the subject property requested an easement to resolve the encroachment of the property's seawall into state submerged lands.  On December 14, 2012, under agenda item D-16, the Board of Land and Natural Resources approved the request for the easement for seawall and step purposes.  Your Committee further finds that this measure satisfies section 171-53, Hawaii Revised Statutes, which requires legislative approval by concurrent resolution prior to the leasing of state submerged lands.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 101 and recommends its adoption.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair