STAND. COM. REP. NO. 205

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1356
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was
referred S.B. No. 1356 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     IMPROVEMENT OF WATER SOURCE STORAGE FOR THE KULA WATER
     SYSTEM ON THE ISLAND OF MAUI,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate $2,000,000 to
improve the Kula water system's water storage capacity.

     Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by a
member of the Maui County Council.

     Your Committees find that the upcountry area of Maui
periodically suffers from serious drought conditions.  These
droughts have had a significant impact on the residents and
businesses in the area.  By providing increased water storage
capacity, the Kula water system will be better able to weather
periods of low water replenishment.

     Your Committees have amended the measure by deleting the
specified dollar amount.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to
this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and

 
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purpose of S.B. No. 1356, as amended herein, and recommend that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B.
No. 1356, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs and
                                   Transportation and
                                   Intergovernmental Affairs,



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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair                COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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