STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3237

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 78

       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.C.R. No. 78, S.D. 1, entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A TERM, NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT COVERING A PORTION OF STATE SUBMERGED LANDS AT KAILUA, KOOLAUPOKO, OAHU, FOR ROCK BLANKET AND REVETMENT PURPOSES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Board of Land and Natural Resources to issue a term, non-exclusive easement covering a portion of state submerged lands for rock blanket and revetment purposes.

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

     Your Committee finds that a rock blanket encroaches on approximately eight hundred fourteen square feet of state submerged lands.  Your Committee further finds that on October 11, 2013, the Board of Land and Natural Resources approved the request of Global Spring Management Hawaii LLC for a non-exclusive easement, pending the payment of an appraised fair market value for the easement.  Your Committee understands that the Legislature's adoption of this measure will satisfy the requirement of section 171-53, Hawaii Revised Statutes, that the Legislature provide authorization by concurrent resolution prior to the leasing of state submerged lands.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 78, S.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair