Report Title:

Kalaeloa, Convey for Economic Development

Description:

Requests the governor to revise transfer agreement for Kalaeloa with Navy to use for economic development.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

1520

TWENTY-SECOND LEGISLATURE, 2003

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO KALAELOA.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. The former Barber's Point Naval Air Station, was closed in 1999, renamed with its traditional Hawaiian name, Kalaeloa, and set to be transferred to various state, county, and federal agencies, including the Hawaiian homes commission, the department of transportation, Honolulu community college, the Hawaii national guard, the department of land and natural resources, the city and county of Honolulu, the Honolulu board of water supply, the Coast Guard, and Federal Aviation Administration, and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. There were approximately three thousand seven hundred acres of land at Kalaeloa, and of that the Navy is retaining one thousand one hundred acres and transferring the rest. The State is the largest transferee of Kalaeloa land.

The federal government can only transfer the land to this State for either public use purposes or for economic development. To date, the State has chosen the public use purpose. However, many of the state agencies scheduled to receive these lands are reluctant to do so at this time as they do not have the financial resources to utilize the land.

The purpose of this Act is to request the governor to revise the State's agreement with the Navy to change the purpose of the conveyance from public use to economic development, so that the land will not lie idle for lack of the funds needed to improve it and can serve as a source of revenue to the State.

SECTION 2. The governor is hereby requested to revise the State's agreement with the Navy to change the purpose of the conveyance from the Navy to the State of lands at Kalaeloa from public use to economic development.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.

INTRODUCED BY:

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