Baird Symposium, Rhode Island

1. The Next Generation of MSP in the U.S.
Future Challenges and Opportunities
Presentation by
Jesse K. Souki, Director
State Office of Planning

2. MSP Future Challenges and Opportunities
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3. Governor
OP
Director
Land Use Planning
Division Division
Statewide Special CZM
GIS Plans Program
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4. State of Hawaii
•Includes CZM Area (Entire
Land Area) and Territorial Sea
(66.6 Kilometers [12 Nautical
Miles] seaward from shoreline)
•1,693 Kilometers (1,052 miles)
of coastline
•Total Resident Population of
1.36 Million people
•$5 Billion in Ocean Economy
(2009)
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5. Ocean and Coastal
Uses
•7,284,069 Visitors in 2011
•Native Hawaiian Cultural
Practices and Gathering Rights
•Public Trust -- Beach Access
•Recreational Fishing
•Commercial Fishing
•Generate 40% of our energy
locally by 2030
•Ocean Thermal Energy
Conversion
•Seawater Air Conditioning
•Wave Energy
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6. STAKEHOLDERS AND SYSTEM
PERMITTING AND PLANNING USERS
 State Planning Act - County  State Agencies
Plans  County Agencies
 Hawaii Ocean Resources  Community / Public
Management Plan  Federal Agencies
 Coastal Zone Management  Non-Governmental
Program
 Special Management Area
Organizations (NGO)
Permitting  Researchers and Academia
 State Ocean  Ocean Energy
Leases/Conservation District  Commercial Users
Use Permits  Coastal Developers
 Statewide GIS Program  Aquaculture
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7. Hawaii State Planning
Act
•Serves as a guide for the future
long-range development of the
state
•Identifies the
goals, objectives, policies, and
priorities for the state
•Provides a basis for determining
priorities and allocating limited
resources, such as public
funds, services, human
resources, land, energy, water, an
d other resources
•Improves coordination of
federal, state, and county
plans, policies, programs, projects
, and regulatory activities
•Establishes a system for plan
formulation and program
coordination to provide for an
integration of all major state, and
county activities
•Each county must adopt
countywide general plans
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8. Hawaii Ocean
Resources
Management Plan
•The ORMP is a State plan.
•Guiding principles to achieve
comprehensive and integrated
ocean and coastal resources
management
•Primary goal is to improve and
sustain the
ecological, cultural, economic,
and social benefits we derive
from ocean resources today
and for future generations.
•Builds on traditional Hawaiian
management principles
•Plan Perspectives
•Connecting Land and Sea
•Preserving Our Ocean
Heritage
•Promoting Collaboration
and Stewardship
•Incremental 5-year
management priorities
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9. Coastal Zone
Management Program
•CZM Act of 1972
•Hawaii's program approved in
1977
•Federal Consistency
•Special Management Area
Permitting
•Programmatic Support for
Coastal Management
•Objectives and Policies
•Recreational resources
•Historic resources
•Scenic and open spaces
•Coastal ecosystems
•Economic uses
•Coastal hazards
•Managing development
•Public participation
•Beach protection
•Marine resources
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10. Special Management
Area Permitting
•Implemented and issued by
each county
•Special controls on
developments within an area
along the shoreline to avoid
permanent losses of valuable
resources
•Ensure that adequate access,
by dedication or other means,
to public owned or used
beaches, recreation areas, and
natural reserves is provided
•Implements CZM objectives
and goals
•Major and minor permits
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11. State Ocean Leases &
Conservation District
Use Permits
•State Board of Land and
Natural Resources
•Must be goals, policies and
plans of the State
•Concurrence of the director of
transportation
•May allow leases in marine life
conservation district, shoreline
fisheries management area, or
the natural area reserve if no
adverse impacts
•No lease shall be awarded in
areas designated as being
necessary for national defense
•Protect the public's use and
enjoyment of the reefs
•Identify use conflicts
•Traditional and customary
Hawaiian rights and Konohiki
fishing rights
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12. Statewide GIS
Program
•Approximately 271 data layers;
179 online
•Includes marine and coastal
layers
•GIS partners from local, state
, and federal agencies
•Developing proof of concept
GIS application with coastal
and marine layers
•Ocean Recreation Areas
•Offshore Installations
•Offshore Sewer Lines
•Restricted Fishing Areas
•Cables
•Coral Reefs
•Whale Sanctuary Boundaries
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13. CHALLENGES OPPORTUNITIES
 Planning fatigue  Robust regulatory system
 Gap analysis
 Sustaining broad stakeholder  Tradition of planning
involvement  Native Hawaiian cultural
 Use permits are case by case issues built into
and burden is on the
applicant constitution, statutes, and
 Showing decision-makers and regulations
users that MSP enables fully  Federal Funding Support
informed decision-making
 Terrestrial plans do not for Sub-Region in NOP
include ocean planning  Enthusiastic supporters
 ORMP is not enforceable
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14. Federal CMSP Efforts under the National Ocean Policy
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15. Pacific Region
•2.9 Million Square Kilometers
in Ocean Area
•Includes EEZ of American
Samoa, Commonwealth of the
Northern Marianas Islands
(CNMI), Hawaii and Guam
•Also includes EEZs of
unpopulated areas known as
the Pacific Remote Island Areas
(PRIA)
(Wake, Johnston, Palmyra, etc.
)
•For purposes of NOP, the
Pacific Islands Region is
comprised of
Hawaii, Guam, CNMI, and
American Samoa
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16.  Executive Branch Interagency Initiative
 Recognizes the importance of U.S. oceans
and the Great Lakes
 Sets forth nine priority objectives
(e.g., CMSP)
 Recognizes nine regions (e.g., Pacific Islands
Region)
 Creates Regional Planning Bodies (RPB) to
implement NOP
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17.  Federal members
 Department of Transportation
 Department of Interior (USGS, BOEM, FWS)
 Department of Commerce (NOAA)
 Department of Defense (USMC)
 Joint Chiefs of Staff
 Department of Agriculture (NRCS)
 Environmental Protection Agency
 Western Pacific Fishery Management Council member
 Two members each from
Hawaii, Guam, CNMI, American Samoa
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18.  Fishery Management Council is expected to
nominate their representative in June
 Letters to Pacific Islands Region governors
are expected to be mailed in June
 Federal RPB members have met
 Will be assessing capacity of all agencies to
contribute towards CMSP
 Draft charter, draft work plan, and begin
drafting CMSP plan
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19. CHALLENGES OPPORTUNITIES
 Jurisdictional issues  Form a good working
 Funding relationship across territorial,
 Largest cost is travel state, and federal agencies
 Create a strategic coastal and
 Expansive region
ocean management plan that
 Incorporating indigenous
not only incorporates
peoples’ perspective
economic and defense driven
 Organizing various and actions, but also culturally
disparate CMSP efforts important and recreationally
across the region important activities
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20. Regional Efforts
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21. Creating the PROP
•Partnership between the
governors of Hawaii, American
Samoa, Guam and CNMI
•Mission is to identify coastal
and ocean management
priorities that require a
coordinated regional response
and increased collaboration to
effectively address these issues
•Opportunity to collaborate on
unique and common coastal
and ocean resource
management topics
•MSP may be one tool utilized
by PROP for planning purposes
•Anticipate formalizing PROP
in 2012
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22. Pacific Region
Distance by Air
•Hawaii to
Guam/CNMI = 3,828
•Hawaii to American
Samoa = 2,585
•Hawaii to SFO =
2,340
•Guam to Brisbane =
2,883
•Guam to Japan =
1,625
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23. CHALLENGES OPPORTUNITIES
 Identifying priorities in an  There are existing
expansive region partnerships in the larger
 Funding pacific region
 Largest cost is travel  PROP governments have
 Expansive region established relationships
 Incorporating stakeholder  Gives the Pacific Islands
input Region a stronger voice in
 Changes in administration the RPB process
 Leveraging science and
knowledge
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24. Questions?
Office of Planning
State of Hawaii
P.O. Box 2359
Honolulu, HI 96804-2359
Ph: (808) 587-2846
URL: http://hawaii.gov/dbedt/op/
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