STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3673

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.C.R. No. 88

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Energy, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 88 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO DESIGNATE HONOLULU INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT AS THE DANIEL K. INOUYE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Transportation to recognize the significant accomplishments and contributions of the late Senator Daniel K. Inouye by designating the Honolulu International Airport as the Daniel K. Inouye International Airport.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and Daniel K. Inouye Institute.

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Transportation, Highways Division, has requested that it be granted an easement on unencumbered state lands adjacent to the highway, to allow for the construction of a boulder fill revetment along a 900-foot section of the seaward side of the highway, outside of the highway right of way, to protect Honoapiilani highway from damage due to shoreline erosion.  Portions of Honoapiilani Highway (State highway 30) are being negatively impacted by the shoreline erosion in the area of Olowalu, Lahaina, Maui.

     To lease state submerged lands, section 171-53, Hawaii Revised Statutes, requires prior authorization of the Legislature by concurrent resolution.  As such your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Deleting its contents and inserting language to authorize the Board of Land and Natural Resources to issue to the Department of Transportation a term, non-exclusive easement for sixty-five years covering a portion of state submerged lands fronting the property identified as tax map key: (2) 4-8-003: Seaward of 006, Olowalu, Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii, for the construction of a boulder fill revetment to protect Honoapiilani highway from damage due to shoreline erosion; and

     (2)  Amending its title to reflect its amended purpose.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Energy that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 88, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 88, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Energy,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair