STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1065

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1476

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology and Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1476, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO NORTH KOHALA,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to direct the Department of Land and Natural Resources to renew its efforts to acquire, through land exchange, lands adjacent to the Kohala Historical Sites State Monument.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Kamehameha Schools, and Mo'okini Luakini, Inc. Your Committees received comments from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

Your Committees support the acquisition of the lands adjacent to the monument as necessary to provide public access to the Kohala Historical Sites State Monument and to protect the site. Despite the State's prior efforts, it has been unsuccessful in acquiring the described parcels. Your Committees find that this measure is critical in ensuring that the Department of Land and Natural Resources renews its efforts to acquire, through land exchange, the lands necessary to protect and preserve the Kohala Historical Sites State Monument.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology and Water, Land, and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1476, H.D. 1, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Media, Arts, Science, and Technology and Water, Land, and Agriculture,

____________________________

RUSSELL S. KOKUBUN, Chair

____________________________

CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair