STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1635-12

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2012

 

RE:   S.B. No. 3003

      S.D. 1

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 3003, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Allow geothermal resources exploration and geothermal resources development in all state land use districts and all zones of the conservation district; and

 

     (2)  Repeal the geothermal resource subzone provisions in the state land use law.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Innovations Development Group; Pacific Resource Partnership; Indigenous Consultants, LLC; and Ormat Technologies, Inc., supported this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs opposed this measure.  The Sierra Club, Hawaii Chapter and an individual commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3003, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3003, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

		____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair