STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2092

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2646
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred S.B. No. 2646 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WAILUPE STREAM,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to authorize the issuance of
general obligation bonds in the amount of $3,988,000, and
appropriate those funds for the Wailupe Stream Flood Control
Project.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from
thirteen private citizens that live near the Wailupe Stream.

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources and a private
citizen did not support the passage of the bill.

     Your Committee finds that the Wailupe Stream Flood Control
Project is envisioned to be a tripartite-sponsored capital
improvement project to be undertaken by the State, City and
County of Honolulu, and moneys appropriated by the U.S. Congress.
Although funds are requested in the measure for the project,
testimony indicated that the funds would not be needed until
2004.  However, testimony also indicated that Congress would
require some form of assurance from the state and local
government that local funds will be committed for these purposes
if it is to appropriate matching funds.


 
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     Your Committee has amended the bill by deleting the general
obligation bond amount and the amount to be appropriated for the
Wailupe Stream Flood Control Project.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 2646, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B.
No. 2646, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.

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



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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