STAND. COM. REP. NO.  342-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2551

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2551 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GEOTHERMAL RESOURCES ON HAWAIIAN HOME LANDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to allocate to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands and the counties twenty percent each of royalties received by the State from geothermal resources development located on Hawaiian homelands.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources and Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Center for Hawaiian Sovereignty Studies provided testimony in opposition to this measure.  The Department of Hawaiian Home Lands provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by allocating one hundred percent of royalties from geothermal resources development located on Hawaiian homelands to the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2551, as amended herein, and

recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2551, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

 

 

 

 

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FAYE P. HANOHANO, Chair