STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3518

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2036

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2036, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CONSERVATION DISTRICTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish an automatic extension of the deadline for a decision by the Department of Land and Natural Resources on a conservation district land use permit application of ninety days beyond the time necessary to complete any required environmental impact statement or contested case hearing regarding the land use.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, and Kona-Kohala Chamber of Commerce.

     Your Committee finds that this measure ensures that if a contested case hearing or an environmental impact statement is required with respect to a land use permit application in a conservation district, the Department of Land and Natural Resources will have adequate time to make a decision and avoid an automatic default approval of the application.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

     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 H.B. No. 2036, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2036, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

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

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair