STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3649

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.C.R. No. 159

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water and Land, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 159 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE OFFICE OF PLANNING AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TO DEVELOP A PLAN TO INCLUDE A SPECIFIC ROLE FOR THE NATIVE HAWAIIAN COMMUNITY IN THE COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT PLAN,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to request that the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development develop a plan to include a specific role for the Native Hawaiian community in the coastal zone management plan.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii State Aha Moku. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development.

Your Committees find that past failure to integrate Native Hawaiian cultural practices has resulted in the loss and destruction of many important cultural resources and has interfered with the exercise of Native Hawaiian culture. Some rules and regulations regarding land and natural resources are created without consultation or compensation to Native Hawaiian beneficiaries. Therefore, the purpose of this measure is to request the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development to develop a consultation implementation plan to ensure the voices of the Hawaiian people are heard.

Your Committees note the testimony of the Office of Planning and Sustainable Development that ‘ike kupuna are already included in planning practices for the Coastal Zone Management program. Therefore, the office feels that the goals of this resolution will be met without formal legislation for the development of a separate planning process which the Coastal Zone Management program does not have the current capacity to address.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Adding the Hawaii State Aha Moku as a partner; and

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

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 159, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 159, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs and Water and Land,

________________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

________________________________ MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair