STAND. COM. REP. NO. 975

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1653
                                        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 Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred H.B. No. 1653, H.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE ALA WAI
     CANAL WATERSHED IMPROVEMENT PROJECT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the
Department of Land and Natural Resources to implement capital
improvement projects in the Ala Wai canal watershed.

     The Department of Health and the Ala Wai Canal Watershed
Improvement Project testified in support of the measure.  The
Department of Land and Natural Resources submitted testimony in
opposition due to funding concerns.

     Your Committee finds that improved management of the Ala Wai
Canal watershed will improve the water quality in the canal and
reduce the need for maintenance.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by deleting the
amount appropriated for the project.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached
to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of H.B. No. 1653, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached

 
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hereto as H.B. No. 1653, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means.

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



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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