STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1181-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 2904

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2904 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AQUATIC MITIGATION BANKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and operate aquatic mitigation banks, to be used as compensatory mitigation for unavoidable adverse impacts of permitted activities or as remediation for adverse impacts of unpermitted activities.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and an individual submitted testimony in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2904 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

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KANIELA ING, Chair