In Re Water Use Permit Applications

Opinion of the Court by

NAKAYAMA, J.

Appellant Hakipu'u ‘Ohana and Ka Láhui Hawai'i [hereinafter, collectively, the “Windward Parties”]1 and appellant Hawaii’s Thousand Friends (HTF) appeal the Commission on Water Resource Management’s [hereinafter, the “Water Commission”] legal framework, findings of fact, and decision and order [hereinafter, the “D & O II”], filed on December 28, 2001, that disposed of seven issues this court remanded in In re Use Permit Applications (Waiāhole I), 94 Hawai'i 97, 9 P.3d 409 (2000). On appeal, the appellants argue that the Water Commission erred by: (1) setting…