STAND. COM. REP. NO.  810-16

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 Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2721, H.D. 1, 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, and appropriate funds for the costs associated with the implementation of the Lipoa Point Management Plan.

The Hawaiian Islands Land Trust, Save Honolua Coalition, and many individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Aha Moku Advisory Committee, and an individual provided comments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2721, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair