STAND. COM. REP. NO.  369-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2721

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2721 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LIPOA POINT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Department of Land and Natural Resources to implement a management plan, to be developed by the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust, for the Lipoa Point area on the Island of Maui.

The Hawaiian Islands Land Trust, Save Honolua Coalition, Plantation Estates Lot Owners Association, Makana Aloha Foundation, and a few individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Aha Moku Advisory Committee, and two individuals testified in opposition to this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting an unspecified appropriation for costs associated with implementing the management plan; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     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 H.B. No. 2721, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2721, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair