STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1164-20

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2020

RE: S.B. No. 70

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2020

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 70, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for continued pilot test small boat harbor enforcement saturation operations within the Ala Wai and Keehi small boat harbors and development of effective enforcement operations, including the hiring of positions.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from two individuals. Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that in November 2019, the Department of Land and Natural Resources' Division of Conservation and Resources Enforcement conducted saturation operations during three weekends at the Ala Wai small boat harbor. Your Committee further finds that these saturation operations resulted in five hundred fifty observed violations, one hundred thirty-five citations, and a number of arrests. These operations also helped facilitate the removal of vessels posing potential environmental hazards to ocean waters. This measure extends these saturation operations by appropriating funds to establish two full-time equivalent positions to continue to pilot test small boat harbor enforcement saturation operations within the Ala Wai and Keehi small boat harbors.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 70, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 70, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair