STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1784-22

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2022

RE: S.B. No. 204

S.D. 1

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2022

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 204, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO AQUATIC RESOURCES,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to authorize the Department of Land and Natural Resources to use aquatic in-lieu fee mitigation to restore, create, enhance, or preserve aquatic habitats or resources where a person is required to provide compensatory mitigation either:

(1) Prospectively, and the use of in-lieu fee mitigation is approved by the agency requiring mitigation; or

(2) For past damages to aquatic habitats or resources.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 204, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair