STAND. COM. REP. NO.  591-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2375

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2375 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AQUATIC MITIGATION BANKS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Land and Natural Resources to establish and operate aquatic mitigation banks to restore, create, enhance, or preserve aquatic habitats or resources as compensatory mitigation for adverse impacts to aquatic habitats or resources.

The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Ho‘omana Pono, LLC, and three individuals submitted testimony in support of this measure.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2375 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ocean, Marine Resources, & Hawaiian Affairs,

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KANIELA ING, Chair