STAND. COM. REP. NO. 541

                                   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 Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 37 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 measure is to request the Department of
Transportation to study the feasibility of noise mitigation at
Hilo Airport.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Transportation, with comments.

     Your Committee finds that the Department of Transportation
is currently working on a master plan update and noise
compatibility update for the Hilo Airport.

     Your Committee believes that the study requested by this
Concurrent Resolution will complement the work underway by the
Department.  Your Committee has amended this measure to delete
relocation of the airport from the study, to change the due date
of the findings and recommendations to prior to the 2000
Legislature, and to make technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent

 
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and purpose of S.C.R. No. 37, as amended herein, and recommends
that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the
form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 37, S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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