STAND. COM. REP. NO. 206

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1428
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred S.B. No. 1428 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ALA WAI
     CANAL WATERSHED IMPROVEMENT PROJECT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to
implement capital improvement projects in the Ala Wai Canal
watershed.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from three
participants in the Ala Wai Canal Watershed Improvement Project.

     Your Committee finds that the Ala Wai Canal contains many
contaminants caused from heavy metals from automobiles, sediments
from unstable soils, and biological contaminants from warm,
fresh, and stagnant water.  

     Your Committee finds that the State has made considerable
investment in the maintenance and improvement of the water
quality of the Ala Wai Canal.  Dredging will soon commence and be
completed.  Once the dredging is complete, the goal of the State
will be to ensure that the low water quality will not continue.
The Ala Wai Canal Water Quality Improvement Project was adopted
by the Legislature during the Nineteenth Legislative Session.
This project proposed various solutions to the water quality
problem.


 
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     Your Committee has amended this measure to delete the total
dollar amounts appropriated because further discussion is needed
in order to quantify the amount necessary to properly implement
the the Ala Wai Canal Watershed Improvement Project.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will take steps
toward improving water quality in the watershed to ensure the
health and safety of the people of Hawaii.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 1428, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B.
No. 1428, 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
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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