STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1044-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   S.B. No. 3065

      S.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 Water & Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 3065, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LAND EXCHANGE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the Department of Budget and Finance to investigate and, if appropriate, execute an exchange of existing state land for certain parcels of land currently owned by Dole Food Company, Inc., and that contain important watershed, forest reserve, and agricultural land.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau, Wahiawa Community and Business Association, Dole Food Company Hawai‘i, and several individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.  The Department of Agriculture, Department of Land and Natural Resources, and The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii submitted comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3065, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

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CINDY EVANS, Chair