STAND

 

STAND. COM. REP. NO.2856

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2002

RE: H.B. No. 2266

H.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, Energy and Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2266, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ACCRETED LANDS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purposes of this measure are to define accreted lands, include accreted lands in the definition of public lands, and require that accreted lands shall be state lands except that a private property owner may file an accretion claim to regain title to the owner's eroded land that has been restored by accretion.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Life of the Land, and three individuals. The Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in opposition.

Your Committee finds that the issue of ownership of accreted beach lands is a particularly critical one, as it directly affects the public's use of these lands.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, Energy and Environment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2266, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Judiciary.

 

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

		____________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair