STAND. COM. REP. NO.  221

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   H.B. No. 629

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 629 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE PAPAHANAUMOKUAKEA MARINE NATIONAL MONUMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to establish the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument (Monument) Program, to be placed within the Office of the Chairperson of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, to coordinate and fulfill the State's role and responsibilities in co-managing the Monument.  Specifically, this measure, among other things:

    

     (1)  Allows the Monument Program to issue permits consistent with applicable state laws and Presidential Proclamation 8031, which established the Monument;

 

     (2)  Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to charge fees that are proportional to the nature and complexity of the projects or services to be performed by the Monument Program; and

 

     (3)  Establishes penalty provisions applicable to Monument Program violations.

 


     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Aha Moku Advisory Committee, Office of Planning, Office of Environmental Quality Control, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, The Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, Historic Hawaii Foundation, Hawaiian National Communications Corporation, and Northwestern Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve Advisory Council provided testimony in support of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 629 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs and Water & Land,

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

 

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KANIELA ING, Chair