STAND. COM. REP. NO. 501-06

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2006

RE: H.B. No. 2889

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources, to which was referred H.B. No. 2889 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF HISTORIC OLD NAHIKU SCHOOL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Enter the old Nahiku School site on the Hawaii Registry of Historic Places;

(2) Require the Department of Land and Natural Resources (DLNR) to construct a replica of the old Nahiku School, to be made available to the Nahiku community; and

(3) Make an appropriation for the improvement and construction of the site.

The DLNR provided comments on this bill.

Your Committee notes that the United States Department of the Interior has specific criteria for a property to qualify for listing as a historic place. Since the old Nahiku School was destroyed by fire, it would be ineligible to qualify.

 

Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting the provision to enter the old Nahiku School site on the Hawaii Registry of Historic Places; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2889, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2889, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources,

 

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair