STAND. COM. REP. NO.  947-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 3036

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 3036, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BEACH MANAGEMENT FOR THE NORTH SHORE OF OAHU,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program to create a North Shore Beach Management Plan covering Oahu beaches from Sunset Beach to Waimea Bay.

The Department of Design and Construction of the City and County of Honolulu, Sea Grant College Program of the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and several individuals provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources and an individual provided comments on this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Specifying that the North Shore Beach Management Plan shall cover beaches from the Kawailoa to Waiale‘e ahupua‘a; and

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

     Your Committee respectfully requests that your Committee on Finance consider inserting an appropriation of $400,000.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3036, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3036, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Higher Education.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

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FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair