STAND. COM. REP. NO. 982

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 378

       H.D. 1

       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 Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs and Water and Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 378, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BEACH NOURISHMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to make an appropriation for the environmental impact statement associated with the planned beach nourishment project at Kaanapali Beach on Maui; provided that no funds shall be expended unless matched dollar-for-dollar with private funds.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Hawaii Tourism Authority and Kaanapali Operations Association.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

 

     Your Committees find that eighty percent of Maui's beaches are eroding.  Located in West Maui, Kaanapali Beach has experienced chronic severe erosion that has degraded parts of the beach and damaged shoreline infrastructure and amenities.  Your Committees further find that visitors to Kaanapali Beach contribute over $2,000,000,000 to the state and Maui county economies each year.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting an effective date of January 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; 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 Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 378, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 378, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

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MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair

 

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BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair