STAND. COM. REP. NO.  77-14

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1586

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 1586 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to extend the exemptions from special management area permit requirements that are provided to the Department of Transportation Harbors Division to the Airports and Highways Divisions of the Department of Transportation.

 

     The Department of Transportation, General Contractors Association of Hawaii, and BIA-Hawaii provided testimony in support of this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Sierra Club of Hawaii, Life of the Land, and a few individuals provided testimony in opposition of this measure.  The Office of Planning commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by conforming its language to the statutes which currently provide the same exemption from county approvals to the Harbors Division.  Accordingly, your Committee:

    

     (1)  Removed language amending the definitions section of the coastal zone management chapter; and

 

     (2)  Amended section 261-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to the maintenance and operation of airports and section 261-4, Hawaii Revised Statutes, relating to state highway permits, to state that the Department of Transportation is authorized to plan, design, construct, operate, and maintain structures and improvements to land, to be used for airport and highway purposes without county approval.

 

     Technical, nonsubstantive amendments were also made for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1586, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1586, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Water & Land.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair