STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2113

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2933

       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 S.B. No. 2933 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A FEDERAL INSPECTION STATION AT KONA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an appropriation for a federal inspection station at Kona International Airport at Keahole.

    Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Department of Defense, Hawaiian Airlines, Mauna Kea Resort, The Fairmont Orchid, Kohala Coast Resort Association, Airport Concessionaires Committee, Airlines Committee of Hawaii, and one individual.

     This measure is intended to establish a secondary federal inspection station in the State of Hawaii that provides added resilience during a civil defense emergency, while providing direct air freight for Hawaii island exports.

     Your Committee finds that the United States Department of Homeland Security, Customs and Borders Protection, requires a federal inspection station for all certificated United States of America airports designed as the first point of entry into the United States of America for all international arriving visitors.

     Your Committee further finds that Customs and Borders Protection requires that each federal inspection station meet its standards for design and construction under their airport technical design standards.  A second federal inspection section also allows for additional international flights and reduced congestion at Honolulu International Airport.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and consistency.

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2933, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2933, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair