STAND. COM. REP. NO.  519-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 2148

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 2148 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ENVIRONMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to protect Hawaii's threatened and endangered species while allowing for acceptable resource use by removing the sunset provision on new approvals and issuances of safe harbor agreements, habitat conservation plans, and incidental take licenses.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaii Cattlemen's Council, Ponoholo Ranch Limited, Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii, and Hawaii Farm Bureau testified in support of this measure.  The Sierra Club of Hawaii testified in opposition of this measure.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2148 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

 


 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy & Environmental Protection and Water & Land,

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair

 

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CHRIS LEE, Chair