STAND. COM. REP. NO. 16-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 1841

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns, to which was referred H.B. No. 1841 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WATER QUALITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to adopt the West Hawaii Coastal Monitoring Program to standardize the statewide procedure for determining the potential impact of major coastal development projects valued at an unspecified dollar amount and which require a special management area permit, and to monitor and measure conditions following development by:

(1) Establishing rules for coastal water quality monitoring based on the West Hawaii Coastal Monitoring Task Force Monitoring Protocol Guidelines (Guidelines), to be implemented by a development; and

(2) Requiring that a development implement the Guidelines before being given county approval to develop in a special management area.

The Hawaii Chapter of the Sierra Club submitted testimony in support of this bill. The Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii offered comments on this bill.

 

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1841 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committees on Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs and Energy and Environmental Protection.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns,

 

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BRIAN SCHATZ, Chair