STAND. COM. REP. 789

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 85

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 85 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the Office of Environmental Quality Control (OEQC) to publish notices of beachfront accretion applications.

Life of the Land, Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter and a concerned citizen testified in support of this measure. The Office of Hawaiian Affairs supported the intent of this bill.

Your Committee finds that putting the public on notice of potential conversion to private ownership of lands formed by the gradual, natural accumulation of land at the edge of the ocean serves a strong public interest in protecting access to beach and shoreline resources.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Adding reference to the public notice requirement established by this bill in statutory provisions governing quiet title actions and applications for land court registration for accreted lands; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style and clarity.

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. 85, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 85, H.D. 1.

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

 

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ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair