The Office of Hawaiian Affairs will try again this legislative session to pass a bill seeking to resolve past due claims on income and proceeds generated by the Public Land Trust.

This year, however, they will not be going to the Legislature hand-in-hand with members of the Lingle administration as it did last year.

The Public Land Trust consists of those 1.2 million acres of ceded lands transferred to the state in the Admissions Act, excluding those lands under the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands. It amounts to about two-thirds of all ceded lands, which refers to the crown and ceded lands that were taken over at the 1898 overthrow.

OHA and the state have long agreed that the agency is owed a portion of the proceeds generated by lands once owned by the Hawaiian monarchy. In fact, the state now pays OHA $15.1 million annually.

What’s been in dispute is how much OHA should have received in the 30 years up until July 1, 2008.

As it did last year, OHA is seeking a settlement valued at $200 million.

And under the plan unveiled at a press conference today, OHA once again is asking to gain title to two parcels of land – in Kaka‘ako Makai and along Banyan Drive in Hilo. The two parcels carry an assessed value of $127.2 million.

But recognizing the state’s financial straits this year, OHA leaders said, it will ask for the remaining $72.8 million to be decided and transferred next year.

A key change in this year’s proposal is that it does not propose any resolution of so-called “future” claims beyond continuation of the $15.1 million annual settlement. Extinguishing future claims was a key concern raised by Native Hawaiian groups who opposed last year’s plan.

“The Legislature’s support and enactment of the bill is essential to put to rest the 30-year old past due ‘disputed’ revenue claims on income and proceeds from the Public Land Trust,” OHA board Chairwoman Haunani Apoliona said.