Bill Text: HI SCR64 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Geothermal Resources; Public Land Development Corporation; Department of Land and Natural Resources

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-12 - (H) Referred to WLO/EEP/HAW, FIN, referral sheet 63 [SCR64 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SCR64-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3158

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.C.R. No. 64

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Energy and Environment and Water, Land, and Housing, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 64 entitled:

 

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION URGING THE PUBLIC LAND DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION TO WORK WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO DEVELOP AND IMPLEMENT GEOTHERMAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS ON PUBLIC TRUST LAND ON THE ISLANDS OF MAUI AND HAWAII,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to urge the Public Land Development Corporation to work with the Department of Land and Natural Resources to develop and implement geothermal projects on public trust land on the Islands of Maui and Hawaii.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Public Land Development Corporation; Pacific Resource Partnership; Association of Hawaiian Civic Clubs; Innovations Development Group; Indigenous Consultants, LLC; and one individual.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Office of Hawaiian Affairs.

 

     Your Committees find that geothermal exploration has the potential to yield geothermal energy, transforming Hawaii from a fossil-fuel-dependent state to a state that embraces renewable energy.  Geothermal energy is indigenous, efficient, renewable, and stable.  Your Committees note that the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative sets a goal of forty percent of all electricity generation and delivery coming from renewable sources by the year 2030.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Amending its title to clarify that the Public Land Development Corporation is urged to first identify public trust land on the Islands of Hawaii and Maui with geothermal resources that may be developed; and

 

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

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environment and Water, Land, and Housing that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 64, as amended herein, and recommend its adoption in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 64, S.D. 1.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environment and Water, Land, and Housing,

 

____________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair		____________________________ MIKE GABBARD, Chair