STAND. COM. REP. NO. 446

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 208
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred
H.B. No. 208, H.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE OFFICE OF ENVIRONMENTAL
     QUALITY CONTROL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to require publication of
environmentally related permit applications in the Office of
Eenvironmental Quality Control bulletin.  

     Your Committee received testimony as follows:

     1.   Hawaiian Electric Company, Hawaii's Thousand Friends,
          in support; and 

     2.   Office of Planning of the Department of Business,
          Economic Development, and Tourism, three University of
          Hawaii professors, offering comment.  

     Your Committee finds that this bill will give statutory
confirmation of an existing practice.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report,
your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 208, H.D. 1, and recommends that it be referred to the
Committee on Finance.


 
 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water and Land
                                   Use,



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                                   Romy M. Cachola, Chair