STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3008

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 2035

       H.D. 1

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs, Water, Land, and Agriculture, and Economic Development, Environment, and Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 2035, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SUSTAINABILITY,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish a three-year pilot project to promote photovoltaic powered desalinization on the island of Kahoolawe and to study certain aspects of the technology's use.

 

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Kahoolawe Island Reserve Commission, Aha Moku Advisory Committee, and twenty-two individuals.  Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; and three individuals.

 

     Your Committees find that fresh water on Kahoolawe is primarily shipped in or comes from desalinization powered by diesel generators.  Your Committees further find that the photovoltaic powered desalinization project established by this measure will reduce the amount of diesel and the amount of fresh water that must be shipped to Kahoolawe, which will reduce shipping costs in the long term and reduce carbon emissions from shipping and diesel power generators.  Your Committees further find that the pilot project established by this measure will provide information about photovoltaic powered desalinization that may prove valuable as climate change continues to affect the State and rest of the world.

 

     Your Committees have amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Inserting an appropriation amount of $500,000;

 

     (2)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2016; and

 

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Hawaiian Affairs, Water, Land, and Agriculture, and Economic Development, Environment, and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2035, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2035, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Hawaiian Affairs, Water, Land, and Agriculture, and Economic Development, Environment, and Technology,

 

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MIKE GABBARD, Chair

 

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MAILE S.L. SHIMABUKURO, Chair

 

 

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GLENN WAKAI, Chair