STAND. COM. REP. NO. 381-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 1655

H.D. 2

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1655, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SPECIAL MANAGEMENT AREAS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to expand the types of activities excluded from the definition of "development" as it applies to special management areas to reduce the need for special management area permits for these activities.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, Office of Planning and Sustainable Development, one member of the Maui County Council, Department of Public Works of the County of Maui, Department of Planning of the County of Maui, Department of Planning and Permitting of the City and County of Honolulu, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that this measure will streamline special management area permitting procedures and reduce costs for certain activities that do not have adverse environmental impacts on the special management area.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Amending the exclusion for installation, maintenance, repair, and replacement of public pedestrian and bicycle facilities to include traffic control barriers that will not obstruct shoreline access;

(2) Excluding the installation of fencing for protection of public utility infrastructure;

(3) Excluding the construction, installation, maintenance, repair, and replacement, including the installation of security measures, to existing government facilities in the special management area by government agencies; and

(4) 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 Judiciary & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1655, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1655, H.D. 2.

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

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair