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Hawaiian Homelands: Hawaii's Efforts to Address Land Use Issues

RCED-94-24 Published: May 26, 1994. Publicly Released: Jun 16, 1994.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed federal withdrawals of Hawaiian homelands, focusing on: (1) federal, state, and judicial opinions on the federal government's trust responsibility to native Hawaiians; (2) territorial governors' authority to withdraw certain Hawaiian homelands; and (3) the reasonableness of the methodology used to estimate the lost income from and the current market value for specific parcels of land.

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Compensation claimsFair market valuestate relationsJudicial opinionsLand managementLand transfersLand use agreementsLand use lawLossesPublic lands