STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1589

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 954

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 954, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING APPROPRIATIONS FOR AGRICULTURAL INFRASTRUCTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the planning and construction of the Honomalino Irrigation System.

The measure also appropriates funds to prepare a comprehensive State Agricultural Water Use and Development Plan.

Your Committee finds that farming in South Kona is susceptible to long droughts that can devastate farms and the local economy. To assist farmers in this drought prone area, this measure appropriates funds to finance the planning and construction of the Honomalino Irrigation System.

Your Committee has amended this measure by adding an unspecified appropriation for the East Kauai Irrigation System. Your Committee finds that the System is in dire need of financial assistance and the appropriation would help the East Kauai Water Users' Cooperative operate and maintain the System for the benefit of the community and all cooperative members.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 954, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 954, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair