STAND. COM. REP. 1006

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 848

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 848 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ISLAND OF KAHOOLAWE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate $500,000 from the Special Land and Development Fund for the development and implementation of a strategy for the use of alternative energy resources on the island of Kahoolawe.

The Pacific International Center for High Technology Research and Office of Hawaiian Affairs testified in support of this bill. The Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission supported the intent of this measure. The Department of Land and Natural Resources opposed this bill.

Your Committees find that Kahoolawe is an ideal demonstration site for renewable energy resources and technology. The lack of permanent habitation on Kahoolawe makes it an excellent place to implement strategies for the development of alternative energy resources.

 

Your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Appropriating funds out of the general fund;

(2) Leaving the appropriation amount blank to facilitate further discussion; and

(3) Requiring matching funds from other sources.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 848, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 848, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy and Environmental Protection and Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs,

 

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair

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HERMINA M. MORITA, Chair