HB2552 CD1

Report Title:

Safe Harbor Agreements

 

Description:

Clarifies the definition of landowner eligible for coverage under safe harbor agreements and habitat conservation plans to include public lands relating to 3 projects. (HB2552 CD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES	H.B. NO.	2552
TWENTY-FIRST LEGISLATURE, 2002		H.D.1
STATE OF HAWAII		S.D. 1 C.D. 1

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO THE DEFINITION OF LANDOWNER FOR SAFE HARBOR AGREEMENTS AND HABITAT CONSERVATION PLANS.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

SECTION 1. Section 195D-2, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending the definition of "landowner" to read as follows:

""Landowner" means the owner of the fee simple interest in private land[;] and may include public lands limited to the following projects:

(1) North-South Road, Ewa, Oahu, project no. HWY-0-01-92 as described in the draft environmental assessment, September 1998; and the project described as Kapolei Parkway, Ewa, Oahu, project no. E-13 of the Oahu Regional Transportation Plan adopted by the Oahu metropolitan planning organization on April 6, 2001;

(2) Cyanotech Corporation, incidental take permit and habitat conservation plan as described in the Federal Register, January 2, 2002 (volume 67, number 1); and

(3) Kealakehe planned community proposed by the housing and community development corporation of Hawaii and the department of Hawaiian home lands on lands within tax map key numbers 7-4-8: parcel 17, 7-4-8: portion 12, 7-4-8: parcel 43, and 7-4-19: portion 43."

SECTION 2. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 3. This Act shall take effect upon its approval.