STAND. COM. REP. NO. 974

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2021

RE: H.C.R. No. 49

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2021

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 49 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF A LEASE COVERING STATE SUBMERGED LANDS AT PIER 27 IN HONOLULU HARBOR, OAHU, TO ATLANTIS SUBMARINES HAWAII, LLC,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance of a lease covering state submerged lands at Pier 27 in Honolulu Harbor, Oahu, to Atlantis Submarines Hawaii, LLC.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation and Atlantis Submarines Hawaii, LLC.

Your Committee finds that the Department of Transportation relocated Atlantis Submarines Hawaii, LLC, from Pier 41 in Honolulu Harbor to Pier 27 during August 2014 to make way for the development of the Kapalama Container Terminal, a critical modernization project identified by the Legislature in the Harbors Modernization Plan under Act 200, Session Laws of Hawaii 2008. Your Committee finds that this measure is necessary to grant legislative authorization for the Department of Transportation, with the prior approval of the Board of Land and Natural Resources, to enter into a lease with Atlantis Submarines Hawaii, LLC, that will include the fast lands at Pier 27 and state submerged lands fronting the property bound by Pier 27.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 49, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No. 49, H.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

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DAVID A. TARNAS, Chair