STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1352-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2911

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water & Land and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred S.B. No. 2911, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ENVIRONMENTAL DUE DILIGENCE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Land and Natural Resources to conduct a phase I environmental site assessment and, if necessary, a phase II environmental site assessment and suitable environmental remediation at the former Lalamilo reservoir site on the island of Hawaii as due diligence concerning the Lalamilo reservoir site land exchange transaction for the relocation of a public library.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Hawaii State Public Library System supported this measure.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Clarifying that site planning, consultant fees, title reports, and title insurance included in the common transaction costs of the environmental site assessments and suitable environmental remediation at the former Lalamilo reservoir site on the island of Hawaii be specific to the use as a library; and

(2) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2051, to encourage further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water & Land and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2911, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2911, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water & Land and Energy & Environmental Protection,

____________________________ CHRIS LEE, Chair

____________________________ RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair