STAND. COM. REP. NO. 569

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1653
                                     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. 1653 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ALA WAI
     CANAL WATERSHED  IMPROVEMENT PROJECT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Land and Natural Resources to implement capital
improvement projects in the Ala Wai canal watershed.  

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from two University of Hawaii professors, and comments on the
bill from the Board of Land and Natural Resources.  

     Your Committee finds that improved management of the Ala Wai
Canal watershed will improve the water quality in the canal and
reduce the need for maintenance.  

     Your Committee revised the bill by:  

     1.   Changing the appropriation to $1 per item 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,
your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 1653, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1653, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.


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



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                                   Romy M. Cachola, Chair