STAND. COM. REP. NO.804

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 212

H.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 212, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE WATER CODE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to enable the State to determine the availability of water resources for current and future agricultural uses by appropriating funds to implement the Agricultural Water Use and Development Plan.

Testimony in support of this bill was submitted by the Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, County of Maui Department of Water Supply, Big Island Farm Bureau, and Pineapple Growers Association of Hawaii. The University of Hawaii at Manoa Environmental Center supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Agriculture and Department of Land and Natural Resources offered comments.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Clarifying that the plan is deemed necessary to qualify for federal aid financing or reimbursement pursuant to Public Law 106-566; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 212, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 212, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair