STAND. COM. REP. NO. 101

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1433

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 1433 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO THE COMMISSION ON WATER RESOURCE MANAGEMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the Commission on Water Resource Management (Commission) to properly assess, monitor, and protect Hawaii's precious supply of fresh water.

The Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Earthjustice, Hawaii Chapter of the Sierra Club, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Honolulu Board of Water Supply, Nature Conservancy of Hawaii, and several members of the community testified in support of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources testified in support of the intent of this bill.

Your Committees are in agreement that this bill is an important step in protecting Hawaii's most precious resource by appropriating the necessary funds allowing the Commission to begin to implement monitoring of our State's fresh water sources.

 

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1433 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Consumer Protection & Commerce.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Water, Land, & Ocean Resources and Energy & Environmental Protection,

 

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HERMINA MORITA, Chair

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EZRA R. KANOHO, Chair