STAND. COM. REP. NO. 592-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2185
                                     H.D. 2




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred
H.B. No. 2185, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO PUBLIC LANDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:


     The purpose of this bill is to provide an alternative for
transportation for West Maui when Honoapiilani Highway is
impassable by authorizing the development of a heliport on the
Olowalu sanitary landfill site to service the West Maui area.

     Maui Mayor James Apana, Council Chair Patrick S. Kawano,
Landtec, Inc., and Maui Hotel Association testified in support of
this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources has no
objections to this bill.  Maui Councilmember Wayne K. Nishiki and
a law firm testified in opposition to this bill.

     Your Committee finds that helicopter operations are not
permitted at the Kapalua airport because of zoning restrictions
imposed when the airport was developed, and the private West Maui
heliport no longer exists.   Your Committee also finds that the
language stating that the lease is subject to the Hawaiian Homes
Commission Act of 1920, as amended, and section 5(f) of the
Admission Act of 1959, does not have to be included since the
provisions of those Acts will always apply.

     Your Committee revised this bill by:


 
 
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     (1)  Adding the provision that the lease be subject to
          disapproval by the county council;

     (2)  Deleting the phrase "and without recourse to public
          auction," on page 3, line 1;

     (3)  Amending Section 2 to limit the area used for the
          heliport to "not more than fifteen acres"; and

     (4)  Deleting language which reads, "Subject to the Hawaiian
          Homes Commission Act of 1920, as amended, and section
          5(f) of the Admission Act of 1959" on page 3, line 25
          to page 4 line 1.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report,
your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 2185, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2185, H.D.
2.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water and Land
                                   Use,



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                                   ROMY M. CACHOLA, Chair