STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1177

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.R. No. 69

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.R. No. 69 entitled:

"SENATE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A TERM, 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 the issuance of a term, non-exclusive easement covering a portion of state submerged lands.

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

     The subject property is identified as tax map key:  (1) 6-1-003:0024-0001.  The character of the use of the easement is the right, privilege, and authority to use, maintain, repair, replace, and remove the existing seawall over, under, and across state-owned land.  The owners of the subject property applied to the Land Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to request a grant of a fifty-five year term for a non-exclusive easement for seawall purposes.  On January 11, 2013, under agenda item D-13, the Board of Land and Natural Resources authorized the easement request.

     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.R. No. 69 and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair