STAND. COM. REP. NO. 321-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: H.B. No. 2419

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2419 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PORT INFRASTRUCTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Department of Land and Natural Resources (Department) to create a strategic plan for maintenance dredging of important port and harbor locations and report the plan to the Legislature; and

(2) Appropriate funds to the Department to create the strategic plan.

The Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu, Activities & Attractions Association of Hawaii, Calypso Charters, Hawai‘i Fishermen's Alliance for Conservation and Tradition, Inc., Ocean Tourism Coalition, Quicksilver Charters, and an individual supported this measure. The Department provided comments.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Specifying that the Department's cost estimates of each potential maintenance dredging project in the strategic plan shall be detailed; and

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2419, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2419, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair