STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2967
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: H.B. No. 2036
H.D. 1
S.D. 1
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2016
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Economic Development, Environment, and Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 2036, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSERVATION DISTRICTS,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to require an automatic extension of the deadline for the Department of Land and Natural Resources' decision on a conservation district use application of ninety days beyond the time necessary to complete an environmental impact statement or contested case hearing, if required.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce, and one individual.
Your Committees find that this measure ensures that adequate time will be automatically granted if a contested case hearing or environmental impact statement is required, in order to avoid an automatic approval of a conservation district use application.
Your Committees have amended this measure to make it effective upon its approval.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Economic Development, Environment, and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2036, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2036, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, and Agriculture and Economic Development, Environment, and Technology,
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________________________________ GLENN WAKAI, Chair |
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________________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair |
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