Bill Text: HI SB568 | 2013 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Sand Removal; Beach or Marine Deposits; Elimination of One-gallon Exception

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-15 - Report adopted; Passed Second Reading and referred to JDL. [SB568 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2013-SB568-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 329

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 568

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committees on Water and Land and Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 568 entitled:

 

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

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the maximum allowable taking of one gallon per person per day of sand, dead coral, coral rubble, rocks, soil, or other marine deposits from the shoreline area or seaward of the shoreline, except for materials inadvertently taken, and exempts responses to public emergencies and disasters, as well as traditional cultural practices.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources and three individuals.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from one individual.

 

     Your Committees find that Hawaii's beach sand sources are diminishing daily due to erosion, inappropriate shoreline armoring, and illegal sand mining.  If residents want sand for household uses, they can purchase inland sand deposits or manufactured sand from various commercial sources.  The amount of sand alone that can be pilfered, even at one gallon per day each by several individuals repeatedly, is staggering.  By disallowing the intentional taking of up to one gallon of sand and other marine deposits per person per day, this measure protects marine deposits as precious natural resources.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land and Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 568 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary and Labor.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water and Land and Tourism and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

____________________________ BRICKWOOD GALUTERIA, Chair		____________________________ MALAMA SOLOMON, Chair