STAND. COM. REP. NO. 177

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 423
                                     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. 423 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION TO MATCH FEDERAL
     FUNDS FOR THE HAWAII FORESTRY AND COMMUNITIES INITIATIVE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Land and Natural Resources to match federal funds
for the Hawaii Forestry and Communities Initiative.  

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this bill
from the Board of Agriculture, Department of Labor and Industrial
Relations, Board of Land and Natural Resources, Department of
Hawaiian Homelands, Hawaii Forest Industry Association, Hawaii
Society of American Foresters, Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Big
Island Farm Bureau, C.A.M. Resource Management, and Nature
Conservancy of Hawaii. 

     Your Committee finds that the Hawaii Forestry and
Communities Initiative is an important part of Hawaii's forestry
industry and the $250,000 appropriation will be matched by an
equal amount of federal funds.  

     Your Committee revised the bill by:  

     1.   Changing the appropriation amount to $1 for the purpose
          of continuing discussion of the bill; 

     2.   Making technical, non-substantive changes for the
          purposes of style and clarity.  

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report,

 
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your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 423, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 423, H.D. 1, and
be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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



                                   ______________________________
                                   Romy M. Cachola, Chair