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Seeking Your Input on the Update of the Plan

The CZM Program is currently updating the 2006 ORMP by conducting an evaluation of the first five years of implementation, identifying areas of focus for the next five years, and determining how the ORMP should be refined or changed to incorporate new issues. The evaluation and update of the 2006 ORMP will last about eighteen months and will be completed in mid-2013. There will be multiple ways to provide input, and the first such opportunity is by attending one of the public listening sessions scheduled for April and May of this year.

The CZM Program is specifically seeking input from a wide variety of stakeholders and ocean users, including Native Hawaiians.   If you are a fisher or a surfer, an opihi picker or the owner of an aquaculture farm, a canoe paddler or a farmer, your input is important.  Come share what’s happening on your island or community and provide input on ocean resource management for the next version of the ORMP.  Public listening sessions will be held on the islands of Kauaʻi, Oʻahu, Maui, Molokaʻi, Lanaʻi, and on both the East and West sides of Hawaiʻi Island:

Please Join Us!
Open House: 5:30-6:30PM
Formal Presentation: 6:30PM
Followed by Questions and Answer Session till pau

KAUAI
Wednesday, April 25
Elsie H. Wilcox Elementary School Cafeteria
4319 Hardy Street
Lihue

OAHU
Wednesday, May 2
Waianae District Park
Multi-Purpose Room
85-601 Farrington Highway
Waianae

WEST HAWAII
Wednesday, May 16
West Hawaii Civic Center
74-5044 Ane Keohokalole Highway
Kailua-Kona

EAST HAWAII
Thursday, May 17
Hilo High School Cafeteria
556 Waianuenue Avenue
Hilo

LANAI
Tuesday, May 22
* Meeting Starts at 6PM
Lanai Senior Center
309 Seventh Street
Lanai City

MAUI
Wednesday, May 23
Paia Community Center
Hana Highway
Paia

MOLOKAI
Wednesday, May 30
Mitchell Pauole Community Center
90 Ainoa Street
Kaunakakai

If you are unable to attend any of the meetings, you may provide written comments regarding the update of the ORMP by sending them to the address below, or by emailing the Hawaiʻi CZM Program at: ormp_update@dbedt.hawaii.gov 

For more information on the evaluation and update of the 2006 ORMP, please contact the Office of Planning, Coastal Zone Management Program.

Hawaiʻi Coastal Zone Management Program
State of Hawaii, Office of Planning
P.O. Box 2359
Honolulu, Hawaii  96804
808-587-2846
http://www.state.hi.us/dbedt/czm/