STAND. COM. REP. NO. 683-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: H.B. No. 2006

H.D. 1

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. 2006, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PERMITS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require certain identifying information to be attached to a sandbag as a condition for an emergency permit for the installation of the sandbag.

Your Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committee finds that emergency permits for temporary sandbags have been authorized as necessary to mitigate coastal erosion in the State. However, your Committee further finds that there are a number of structures that are not in compliance with their emergency permit conditions and may be dangerous or detrimental to the environment. Your Committee believes that there should be methods in place, such as requiring certain identifying information to be attached to a sandbag, that can hold all permittees accountable for the type of device or structure installed to ensure compliance with permit conditions.

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. 2006, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair