STAND. COM. REP. 163

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: H.B. No. 1286

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1286 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NATIVE HAWAIIAN HISTORIC SITES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require a landowner of private property that contains a potential native Hawaiian historical site to obtain prior approval from the Department of Land and Natural Resources before conducting certain activities on the land.

The County of Hawaii supported this bill. The Koolau Foundation testified in support of the bill and suggested an amendment. The Hawaii Leeward Planning Conference opposed the measure.

Your Committee finds that under current law, only burials and sites listed on the state or national historic registers are normally protected. However, they represent a very small percentage of historical sites in the State.

This bill attempts to balance the interests of private landowners with the desire to preserve significant physical remnants of the Hawaiian past.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1286 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

 

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair