STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3025

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 3216

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 3216, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ISLAND OF KAHO'OLAWE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to direct the Auditor to conduct an audit to determine the feasibility of deploying alternative energy resources to meet the energy needs of the island of Kaho`olawe and submit a report of findings and recommendations to the legislature and governor.

Maui Tomorrow submitted testimony in support of this measure.

The revitalization of Kaho`olawe represents a unique opportunity to create a model sustainable reserve based on innovative alternative energy and environmentally conscious technologies. Your Committees find that the use of such technologies is critical to ensuring compliance with the cultural, educational, and historical governing principles envisioned for the island and its water. However, it is outside the Auditor's normal range of duties to audit the feasibility of a program that does not exist.

Upon further consideration, your Committees amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting all of the original provisions; and

(2) Conforming it to S.B. No. 3159 S.D. 1 to appropriate funds to install renewable energy systems for a model kahua kauhale or encampment on Kaho`olawe and to enable an ongoing evaluation of renewable resources on the island.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 3216, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 3216, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Energy, Environment, and International Affairs and Judiciary and Hawaiian Affairs,

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COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair