STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1207

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 162

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Technology and the Arts and Water and Land, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 162 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING CONTINENTAL PACIFIC, LLC, TO PLACE AN IMMEDIATE STAY OF EVICTION TO ALLOW RESIDENTS OF KAHUKU VILLAGE TO REMAIN IN THEIR HOMES UNTIL AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVENTORY SURVEY CAN BE COMPLETED FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge Continental Pacific, LLC (Continental Pacific), to place an immediate stay of eviction to allow residents of Kahuku Village to remain in their homes until an archaeological inventory survey can be completed for the entire project.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Kahuku Plantation Residents Association and two individuals.

 

     Your Committees find that the State Historic Preservation Division of the Department of Land and Natural Resources has indicated that no new permits will be granted to Continental Pacific until the developer has conducted an archaeological inventory survey for the Kahuku Village project.  Your Committees further find that in the absence of a response from the Department of Land and Natural Resources, your Committees will rely on the testimony from the Kahuku Plantation Residents Association, which states that the State Historic Preservation Division has refused to enforce its own order for an archaeological inventory survey to be performed.  This measure is important to ensure the protection of burial sites, since iwi were found during excavation.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by changing the title to read, "URGING CONTINENTAL PACIFIC, LLC, AND THE STATE HISTORIC PRESERVATION DIVISION TO, AMONG OTHER THINGS, PLACE AN IMMEDIATE STAY OF EVICTION TO ALLOW RESIDENTS OF KAHUKU VILLAGE TO REMAIN IN THEIR HOMES UNTIL AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVENTORY SURVEY CAN BE COMPLETED FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT AND ENSURE THAT THE KAHUKU VILLAGE PROJECT ADHERES TO ALL REQUIREMENTS, INCLUDING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE TREATMENT OF BURIAL REMAINS AND FOR CONDOMINIUM PROPERTY REGIMES".

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Technology and the Arts and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 162, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 162, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Technology and the Arts and Water and Land,

 

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MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair