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DLNR says it already uses criteria in SB439 as advocates press for dedicated natural resource funding
Summary
The Department of Land and Natural Resources told the joint committees it is already applying fee criteria similar to those in SB439; conservation and care-for-aina groups urged passage to secure funding for resource protection.
The Department of Land and Natural Resources told the joint Senate Committee on Hawaiian Affairs and the Senate Committee on Ways and Means that it is already using criteria similar to those proposed in Senate Bill 439 as advocates urged lawmakers to pass the measure to fund natural resource protection.
Kirk Cottrell, administrator for the Division of State Parks at DLNR, told the committees the agency “is basically doing everything that the bill is requesting now.” Cottrell said the department has been…
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