STAND. COM. REP. NO.  462

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1059

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Agriculture, to which was referred H.B. No. 1059 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO PLAN, DESIGN, AND CONSTRUCT A TEST WELL IN UPCOUNTRY MAUI TO SERVE AS THE FIRST PHASE IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF A GROUND WATER WELL TO SUPPLEMENT THE UPCOUNTRY MAUI SURFACE WATER SYSTEM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide much-needed water resources on Maui by appropriating $1,500,000 for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007-2008 to plan, design, and construct a test well in upcountry Maui, either in Makawao or Pukalani, to serve as the first phase in the construction of a ground water well to supplement the upcountry surface water system.

 

     The Department of Water Supply for the County of Maui and Aloun Farms supported this bill.  The Department of Land and Natural Resources supported the intent of this measure.  The Office of Hawaiian Affairs opposed this bill.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Revising and clarifying the appropriation for the test well as follows:

 

          (A)  $125,000 for FY 2007-2008 for plans and design; and

 

          (B)  $1,375,000 for FY 2008-2009 for construction;

 

          and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for style, clarity, and consistency.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Agriculture that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1059, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1059, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Agriculture,

 

 

 

 

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CLIFT TSUJI, Chair