STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1189

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 158

       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 S.C.R. No. 158 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A TERM, NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT COVERING A PORTION OF STATE SUBMERGED LANDS AT MANELE BAY, LANAI, FOR RENOVATION OF MANELE SMALL BOAT HARBOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the issuance of a term, non-exclusive easement covering a portion of state submerged lands at Manele Bay, Lanai, for renovation of Manele Small Boat Harbor.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and twenty individuals.

     The subject property is identified as tax map key (2) 4-9-17:06.  Coon Brothers Inc., is a Hawaii corporation that owns and operates tour boats between the islands of Maui and Lanai through three subsidiaries collectively known as Trilogy Corporation.  Trilogy Corporation began conducting commercial operations from Manele Small Boat Harbor in 1973 in an area that was to become berth 24.  In 1993, the Board of Land and Natural Resources and Trilogy Corporation entered into a renewable, thirty-five year lease of 18,000 square feet of undeveloped land adjacent to berth 24.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting the tax map key number; and

     (2)  Clarifying that the lease term shall run thirty-five years, rather than an extension for an additional twenty years to Boating Lease No. B-93-02, and specifying that it is to be delegated by the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources.

     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 S.C.R. No. 158, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 158, S.D. 1.

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

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MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair