STAND. COM. REP. NO. 96-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1987

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Water & Land, to which was referred H.B. No. 1987 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO STREAMS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Commission on Water Resource Management (Commission) to contract with the United States Geological Survey to conduct a study on streamflows in the State.

 

     The Department of Land and Natural Resources, Hawaiian Civic Club of Honolulu, Sierra Club of Hawaii, and an individual supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by requiring the Commission to:

 

     (1)  Conduct the study on streamflows in the State over a period of five years; and

 

     (2)  Report to the Legislature on the progress of the study annually while the study is being conducted.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water & Land that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1987, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1987, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Water & Land,

 

 

 

 

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RYAN I. YAMANE, Chair