Bill Text: HI SB1521 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Aquatic Resources; UH; DLNR

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB1521 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB1521-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 695

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 1521

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 1521, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCES,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to temporarily:

 

     (1)  Allow the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology to use staff of the Department of Land and Natural Resources to provide security at Coconut Island; and

 

     (2)  Exempt the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology from state and county permitting requirements for repair and maintenance at Coconut Island.

 

     Your Committee received comments on this measure from William J. Aila, Jr., Chairperson, Department of Land and Natural Resources; and Jo-Ann Leong, Director, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology.

 

     Your Committee finds that state and county permitting processes make it difficult for the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology to conduct its time-sensitive research work at Coconut Island.  This measure addresses these concerns and alleviates the Institute's burden of providing costly security on the island.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the temporary exemptions from permitting requirements for the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology include permitting requirements under chapter 205A, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1521, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1521, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair