STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1405-08

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2008

RE:   H.C.R. No. 72

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 72 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR TO DESIGNATE A STATE AGENCY TO DEVELOP A STATEWIDE LAND USE STRATEGY TO MITIGATE POTENTIAL HAZARDS CAUSED BY CATASTROPHIC DISASTERS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this concurrent resolution is to help diminish the likelihood and severity of losses caused by catastrophic disasters by requesting that the Governor designate an agency to develop a statewide land use strategy to lessen potential damage caused by catastrophic disasters.

     The Department of Defense supported this concurrent resolution.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 72 and recommend that it be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety & Military Affairs and Water, Land, Ocean Resources & Hawaiian Affairs,

____________________________ KEN ITO, Chair

____________________________ CINDY EVANS, Chair