STAND. COM. REP. NO. 310

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1253
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred
H.B. No. 1253 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO AID EFFICIENT
     MANAGEMENT OF LAKE WILSON,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Land and Natural Resources for the efficient
management of Lake Wilson.  

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Hawaii Freshwater Fishing Association and offering
comment on this bill from the Board of Land and Natural Resources

     Your Committee finds that Department of Land and Natural
Resources has identified Lake Wilson as a sustainability problem
area, with many unwanted alien species in the reservoir.
Permanent staffing at the lake would improve enforcement, fish
population management and water control.  Greater information on
the uses of the money and the benefits will allow the legislature
to reach a final decision on the funding.  

     Your Committee revised the bill by:  

     1.   Changing the appropriation to an undesignated amount
          for the purpose of continuing discussion of the bill;
          and 

     2.   Making technical, non-substantive changes for the
          purposes of style and clarity.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report,

 
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your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 1253, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1253, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water and Land
                                   Use,



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                                   Romy M. Cachola, Chair