Bill Text: HI SB1207 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Submerged Lands; Department of Transportation Exemption

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2013-05-24 - Act 86, 5/21/2013 (Gov. Msg. No. 1186). [SB1207 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB1207-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 455

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1207

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Water and Land, to which was referred S.B. No. 1207 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to exempt all work involving submerged lands used for state commercial harbor purposes from the permit and site plan approval requirements for lands within the conservation district.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and one individual.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Sierra Club, Marine Resource Council, and one individual.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii and the Building Industry Association of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committees find that the exemption provided by this measure allows the Harbors Division of the Department of Transportation to plan and more effectively and efficiently implement projects in a timely manner to meet the growing needs of the maritime industry.  The "just in time" cargo system for Hawaii is dependent upon the state commercial harbors system, as ninety-eight percent of imported goods pass through harbors.  Significant impacts to facility operations and delivery of goods can occur if necessary capital projects are not completed or harbor facilities are not maintained or rehabilitated in a timely manner due to unnecessary permit delays.

 

     Your Committees also find that sufficient oversight already exists for submerged lands within the state commercial harbors system for the preservation of the ecosystem, flora, and fauna under existing state and federal environmental laws.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Water and Land that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1207 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and International Affairs and Water and Land,

 

____________________________ MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair		____________________________ J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair