Bill Text: HI HB710 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended
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
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:
(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,
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____________________________ SYLVIA LUKE, Chair |
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