STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1232

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.C.R. No. 212
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 212 entitled: 

     "SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF
     TRANSPORTATION, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE NAVY AT PEARL
     HARBOR, THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU, AND THE AIEA
     NEIGHBORHOOD BOARD NO. 20 TO PLAN AND IMPLEMENT A PROGRAM TO
     BEAUTIFY THE GATEWAY INTO AIEA,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of
Transportation, in conjunction with the Navy at Pearl Harbor, the
City and County of Honolulu, and the Aiea Neighborhood Board
No. 20, to plan and implement a program to beautify the gateway
into Aiea.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Transportation, Navy Region Hawaii, and the Aiea
Neighborhood Board No. 20.

     Your Committee finds that various projects at the state and
federal level are in progress to improve and beautify Kamehameha
Highway in the vicinity of the Arizona Memorial.  The U.S. Navy
has also taken steps to develop a master plan that includes
beautifying Navy property around the Pearl Harbor complex.  With
the arrival of the USS Missouri, the number of visitors to the
Pearl Harbor area will increase.  Therefore, a concerted and
coordinated effort by the State, City and County of Honolulu,

 
a                                                     SCR212 SD1
 
                                   STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1232
                                   Page 2


U.S. Navy, and the Aiea community is needed to develop and
implement a program to beautify the gateway into Aiea.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 212, as amended herein, and
recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 212, S.D. 1.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



                                   ______________________________
                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
a                                                     SCR212 SD1