Bill Text: HI HB710 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Fishponds; Restoration; Permits

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-03-07 - Referred to WTL/THA, WAM. [HB710 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-HB710-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  814

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 710

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 710 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO FISHPONDS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to facilitate the restoration of Hawaiian fishponds by requiring the Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Health, Office of Planning, community organizations, and Native Hawaiian aquaculturalists to collaborate on streamlining the permitting process to restore Hawaiian fishponds.  Specifically, this bill requires the implementation of:

 

     (1)  One master conservation district use application process applicable to all Hawaiian fishponds;

 

     (2)  A coastal zone management program consistency statement for Hawaiian fishponds;

 

     (3)  Water quality certification for Hawaiian fishponds;

 

     (4)  A general permit that conforms to the requirements for a Hawaiian fishpond pollution discharge elimination system; and

 

     (5)  Administrative rules.  

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Department of Health, Honua Consulting, and a few individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Office of Planning, Loko I‘a Consulting, and an individual provided comments on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 710, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 710, H.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

 

		____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair