STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1276

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.R. No. 55
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was
referred S.R. No. 55 entitled:

     "SENATE RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND
     NATURAL RESOURCES TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF CONSTRUCTING A
     BOAT RAMP FOR USE BY RECREATIONAL USERS AT CAPE
     KUMUKAHI/KAPOHO BAY,"

begs leave to report as follows:
     
     The purpose of this measure is to requesting the Department
of Land and Natural Resources to study the feasibility of
constructing a boat ramp for use by recreational users at Cape
Kumukahi/Kapoho Bay to alleviate the user conflict at the Pohoiki
Boat Ramp.

     Your Committee received testimony in opposition to this
measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and one
individual.

     Your Committee finds that the study requested by this
measure is in response to continuing conflicts of commercial and
recreational fishing at the Pohoiki facility.  While your
Committee understands that such a study would require both
financial and other resources, the members support development of
alternative options to resolve the ongoing conflict.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development that is attached to this
report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of

 
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S.R. No. 55, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development,



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                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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