STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1464

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 980
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 980, H.D. 2, entitled:

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO IRRIGATION WATER
     DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to remove uncultivatable and
unuseable lands from consideration in determining irrigation
project acreage assessments.

     Currently, acreage assessments of irrigation projects are
based on total acreage regardless of regulatory restrictions on
the land.

     This bill requires an assessment of only cultivatable land
which does not include streams, dry gulches, and uncultivatable
or unuseable lands that may be restricted by government
regulation.  The bill also allows the Board of Agriculture to
establish, by rule, a minimum acreage assessment on
uncultivatable or unuseable lands.

     Your Committee has amended the bill by making a technical
change that has no substantive effect.


 
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     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 980, H.D. 2, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the
form attached hereto as H.B. No. 980, H.D. 2, S.D. 1.

                                 Respectfully submitted on behalf
                                 of the members of the Committee
                                 on Ways and Means,



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                                 CAROL FUKUNAGA, Co-Chair



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                                 ANDREW LEVIN, Co-Chair

 
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