STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1628

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 37
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred
S.C.R. No. 37, S.D. 1, entitled:

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF
     TRANSPORTATION TO STUDY THE FEASIBILITY OF NOISE MITIGATION
     AT HILO AIRPORT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this Concurrent Resolution is to request the
Department of Transportation to study the feasibility of noise
mitigation at Hilo airport.

     Your Committee finds that while the delivery of supplies to
a community via aircraft means faster delivery of fresher foods
and goods, aircraft noise especially, can be distressful and
disturbing to the local community that lives nearby.  The health
and psychological effects of noise on human beings have been
documented for decades.  Sleep patterns can be disturbed and
noise can affect blood pressure.  The flight patterns over Hilo
have increased more than twofold in the past thirty years and as
a result have seriously impacted the life of the community.  As a
city near the ocean, moving flight patterns seaward might
mitigate aircraft noise to give the residents of Hilo noise
relief.  A study to examine methods of noise mitigation is
important and needed.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 37,
S.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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