STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2833

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 18

       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 Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 18 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A TERM, NON-EXCLUSIVE EASEMENT COVERING PORTION OF STATE SUBMERGED LANDS AT SAND ISLAND, HONOLULU, OAHU, FOR THE USE, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT, AND REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING FLOATING DOCK,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the issuance of a term, non-exclusive easement for the portion of state submerged lands fronting the property identified as tax map key:  (1) 1-5-041: portions of 006, Sand Island, Oahu, for the use, maintenance, improvement, and replacement of the existing floating dock constructed thereon, pursuant to section 171-53, Hawaii Revised Statutes.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources; University of Hawai‘i School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology; and Ho‘omana Pono, LLC.

     Your Committee finds that, pursuant to section 171-53, Hawaii Revised Statutes, the Board of Land and Natural Resources may lease submerged lands with the prior approval of the Governor and the prior authorization of the Legislature by concurrent resolution.  Your Committee further finds that on September 25, 2015, the Board of Land and Natural Resources approved a grant of a sixty-five year lease which includes a non-exclusive easement to resolve the encroachment of the floating dock identified in this measure.  Your Committee concludes that the easement is necessary for the use, repair, maintenance, improvement, and replacement of the existing floating dock.

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

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 18, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 18, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture,

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair