HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

19

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2006

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 
   


HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

REQUESTING THE PRESIDENT AND THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES TO study POTENTIAL USE OF WATERWAYS AND LANDS WITHIN PEARL HARBOR UNDER federal JURISDICTION for PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION.

 

 

WHEREAS, the use of waterways and lands within Pearl Harbor to accommodate public transportation requires a finding by the United States Congress that any such use would involve nationally significant resources within the harbor that are currently used to sustain military operations; and

WHEREAS, because geographical features, including an ocean and mountain range, prohibit the expansion of existing roadways or development of new ones needed to accommodate motor vehicle traffic on the island of Oahu, the use of waterways and lands under the jurisdiction of the United States government, including those found in, on, over, and under Pearl Harbor, to accommodate public transportation would be of "National Significance" and thereby constitute grounds for evaluation by the United States Armed Forces; and

WHEREAS, the Legislature, by Act 178, Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, appropriated $200,000 to study the feasibility of utilizing the Pearl Harbor corridor to accommodate a tunnel to address the transportation crisis on the island of Oahu; and

WHEREAS, to accomplish the intent of the study funded by Act 178, the constraints imposed upon any branch of the United States Armed Forces or Department of Homeland Security operations that would restrict the construction of an underpass, tunnel, road, or bridge, or combination of underpasses, tunnels, roads, or bridges must be identified; now, therefore,

BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-Third Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2006, the Senate concurring, that the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States are requested to explore the use of or passage over, under, or through Pearl Harbor to accommodate public transportation in a way that would allay military concerns; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that such consideration is requested to include a determination that such use rises to the level of bearing "National Significance"; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the President of the United States and the Congress of the United States are hereby urged to exhaust all means available to fund and facilitate an Act of Congress or Executive Order that initiates findings on the potential of waterways and lands within Pearl Harbor under the jurisdiction of the United States government to serve as a means to accommodate public transportation; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the President of the United States, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, each member of Hawaii's Congressional Delegation, and the Secretary of Transportation.

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title:

Pearl Harbor Waterways and Lands; Potential Use of