STAND. COM. REP. NO. 255-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: H.B. No. 2926

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 2926 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE WAIMANALO RESEARCH AND OUTREACH CENTER,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for the University of Hawaii at Manoa College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) to develop a long-range plan for a research and outreach center in Waimanalo (Center) that would provide secure field facilities for plant and animal biotechnology research.

The Hawaii Farm Bureau, Nalo Farms, Hawaiian Host, Waimanalo Agricultural Association, and Castle & Cooke Hawaii testified in support of this measure. CTAHR offered comments.

Because your Committee finds that the Waialua area of Oahu has an abundance of land, water, and a trained workforce, your Committee respectfully requests that your Committee on Finance also considers agricultural lands in Waialua as potential sites for the center.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2926 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

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

 

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FELIPE P. ABINSAY, JR., Chair