STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1024

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 1206

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred H.B. No. 1206, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR CIVIL DEFENSE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to revise current tsunami inundation maps from a one-dimensional format to a clearer two-dimensional format.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the State Department of Defense and Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.

The State is vulnerable to a tsunami disaster. Your Committee recognizes the importance of remaining vigilant to protect residents and visitors from this disaster. Because tsunami threats pose the potential to cause great devastation to Hawaii, it is vitally important to ensure the State is adequately prepared to deal with this disaster. While the State and related private agencies continually strive towards becoming better able to handle a tsunami disaster, more resources are needed to upgrade tsunami inundation maps.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1206, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation and Government Operations,

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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair