STAND. COM. REP. NO.392

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 517

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 517 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO BUILD A FRUIT FLY IRRADIATION TREATMENT PLANT ON OAHU,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $1,000,000 for each year of the 2003-2004 fiscal biennium to build a fruit fly irradiation treatment plant on Oahu.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the Board of Agriculture and the Hawaii Farm Bureau.

Your Committee finds that a commercial irradiator located on the island of Oahu would allow growers on Oahu, Maui, Molokai, and Kauai to move fresh agricultural products to export markets through Honolulu International Airport in the most efficient and least costly manner. This would expand the export market for the entire State. Because Oahu already is the main staging area for many locally grown commodities, it would be the ideal location for this facility.

Your Committee has deleted the dollar amount and left it blank for determination by the Committee on Ways and Means.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water, Land, and Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 517, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 517, 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 Agriculture,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair