STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1447

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.C.R. No. 98
                                     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.C.R. No. 98 entitled: 

     "HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF
     LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES TO STUDY THE PROBLEMS WITH
     FLOODING IN THE WAILUPE STREAM AREA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this resolution is to request the Department
of Land and Natural Resources to study the flooding problems of
Wailupe stream.  

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this
resolution from Project Planners Hawaii and three individuals,
and from the Board of Land and Natural Resources offering
comment.  

     Your Committee finds that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
conducted a study of the flooding of Wailupe stream and
determined that flood control measures did not meet their
benefit/cost criteria, but the study did not take into account
the higher cost of land and construction in Hawaii.  Action by
the state land agency and Hawaii's congressional delegation may
persuade the Corps of Engineers to reconsider their earlier
findings and proceed with Wailupe stream flood control measures.  

     Your Committee revised this resolution by:  

     1.   Amending the contents to reflect the additional cost
          factor not considered in the Army Corps of Engineers
          study; 


 
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     2.   Changing the title and contents to request Hawaii's
          congressional delegation to assist in resolving the
          Wailupe stream flooding problem; 

     3.   Requesting the Department of Land and Natural Resources
          and the City and County of Honolulu Department of
          Design and Construction to work with Hawaii's
          congressional delegation and the Army Corps of
          Engineers; 

     4.   Providing for certified copies to the Governor, the
          Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, the Chair of
          the Board of Land and Natural Resources, the Director
          of the City and County of Honolulu Department of Design
          and Construction, the members of Hawaii's congressional
          delegation and the Commander of the U.S. Army Corps of
          Engineers; and 

     5.   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,
your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No.
98, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the
Committee on Finance, in the form attached hereto as H.C.R. No.
98, H.D. 1.

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



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                                   Romy M. Cachola, Chair