STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2768

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 3062

       S.D. 1

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. 3062 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Transportation and the University of Hawaii to complete negotiations and execute an agreement to relocate the University of Hawaii Marine Center.

     The measure also:

     (1)  Provides that if an agreement is not executed by July 1, 2015, the existing lease shall be deemed terminated as a matter of law on that date; and

     (2)  Requires the Department of Transportation to report to the Legislature on the progress of the negotiations and execution of an agreement.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.  Written comments in opposition were received from the University of Hawaii School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Transportation has leased long term to the University of Hawaii the land on which the University of Hawaii Marine Center is located.  Your Committee also finds that this land is essential to the development of the Kapalama containment terminal project and that the University and the Department have been involved in ongoing negotiations for the relocation of the Marine Center.  Your Committee believes that this measure will help to expedite an amicable agreement to relocate the Marine Center and enable the Department to move forward with the development of the Kapalama containment terminal project.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

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

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive changes for 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. 3062, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3062, S.D. 1.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair