Bill Text: HI HB2682 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Ocean Resources; Commercial Activities, Department of Land and Natural Resources

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-07-10 - (S) Act 289, 7/9/2012 (Gov. Msg. No. 1406). [HB2682 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2682-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3260

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2682

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2682, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES ON OCEAN WATERS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize the Department of Land and Natural Resources to regulate the commercial activities that operate out of private marinas and use state waters or marine resources.

 

     Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Environmental Caucus of the Democratic Party of Hawaii and two individuals.

 

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Land and Natural Resources currently lacks the authority to manage commercial activities that initiate from a private marina or harbor and is only permitted to regulate the number of permits for commercial activities initiated from state run harbors or marinas.  Your Committee also finds that this measure enables the Department of Land and Natural Resources to regulate commercial activities that operate out of private marinas and thus allows the Department to manage all commercial activities on near shore waters, thereby facilitating the Department's ability to protect Hawaii's natural resources.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Clarifying that the Board of Land and Natural Resources's authority to regulate the commercial use of state waters and marine resources includes operations originating from private marinas; and

 

     (2)  Making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity 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 H.B. No. 2682, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2682, H.D. 1, S.D. 1.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair