STAND. COM. REP. NO. 396-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1902
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred
H.B. No. 1902 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE WATER CODE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to maximize the use of potable
water by using nonpotable water when feasible.  This bill
authorizes the Commission on Water Resource Development
(Commission), as a condition for issuing use permits pursuant to
the State Water Code, to require the use of dual line water
supply systems in new industrial and commercial developments
located in designated water management areas.  Under a dual line
water supply system, potable and nonpotable water are distributed
through parallel but separate distribution lines.

     The Commission and the Honolulu Board of Water Supply
testified in support of this bill.  The Land Use Research
Foundation and Castle & Cooke, Inc., opposed passage of this
measure.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the
following two conditions under which the Commission shall not
require the use of dual line water supply systems:

     (1)  There is a threat to existing instream uses; and


 
 
 
 
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     (2)  There is a threat to existing reasonable-beneficial
          uses within or outside a designated water management
          area;

and inserting the following conditions:

     (1)  A source of nonpotable water will not be reasonably
          available in the near future; and

     (2)  There is a serious threat to permitted ground or
          surface water uses within a designated water management
          area.

     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 is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B.
No. 1902, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1902, 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,



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                                   ROMY M. CACHOLA, Chair