STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1509

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 538

H.D. 2

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 538, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to clarify the responsibilities of the Coastal Zone Management (CZM) Program, amend the composition and the responsibilities of the advisory group, increase the cost threshold for development permits, require public notice of pending special management area minor permits, and increase penalties for violations of the law.

Your Committee received written testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Environmental Quality Control and the Office of Planning. Hawaii's Thousand Friends and The Environmental Center at the University of Hawaii at Manoa submitted comments.

Your Committee finds that the proposed amendments to the CZM law have been developed, in part, as the result of discussions with the parties most affected by the law. Your Committee notes that these discussions have continued through the various changes in the measure, and wishes to commend the parties involved for their willingness to resolve problems as they have arisen.

Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the amended definitions of special management area minor permit and special management use permit to retain the current thresholds for each of these development permits at $125,000.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 538, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 538, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair