STAND. COM. REP. NO. 969
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2015
RE: S.B. No. 774
S.D. 1
Honorable Joseph M. Souki
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Eighth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2015
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 774, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PROTECTION OF TARO,"
begs leave to report as follows:
(1) Adding to the Board of Land and Natural Resources' Intensive Agricultural Use classification of public lands, a Fourth Class—Taro Lands classification comprising undeveloped public lands in the land use conservation district that were in wetland taro cultivation prior to statehood or traditional taro lands that retain historic structural evidence of wetland taro lands; and
(2) Authorizing and appropriating funds for the Board of Land and Natural Resources, in conjunction with the Taro Security and Purity Task Force, to create an inventory of Fourth Class—Taro Lands.
The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Department of Land and Natural Resources, Aha Moku Advisory Committee, Taro Security and Purity Task Force, Waianae Neighborhood Board, Hydroponics Alternative LLC, E kūpaku ka ‘āina-The Hawaii Land Restoration Institute, Hawaii Farmers Union United, Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs, and numerous concerned individuals supported this measure. The Department of Agriculture and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii supported the intent of this measure.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 774, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Water & Land.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,
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____________________________ CLIFT TSUJI, Chair |
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