STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2770

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3036

       S.D. 2

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 3036, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent 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.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Transportation, University of Hawaii Sea Grant Program, Surfrider Oahu Chapter, and seven individuals.

     Your Committee finds that North Shore beaches from Sunset Beach to Waimea Bay are vulnerable to erosion and the effects of climate change and sea level rise.  Your Committee believes that creating a beach management plan for the North Shore that engages the community to evaluate these concerns and consider innovative ways to address them will benefit the State.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Clarifying the components of the beach management plan;

     (2)  Deleting the requirement that the plan include disaster recovery plans;

     (3)  Changing the amount of the appropriation to an unspecified sum;

     (4)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

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

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3036, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3036, S.D. 2.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair