STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3378

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 1949
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 2




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B.
No. 1949, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO ALIEN AQUATIC ORGANISMS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to designate the Department of
Land and Natural Resources as the lead state agency for
preventing the introduction, and carrying out the destruction, of
alien (i.e., non-native) aquatic organisms through the regulation
of ballast water discharges and hull fouling organisms.

     In addition, this bill:

     (1)  Allows the Department of Land and Natural Resources to
          adopt rules to carry out the purposes of this bill,
          including:

          (A)  Standards for the Department and the U.S. Coast
               Guard to use as part of their respective
               inspection protocols;

          (B)  A course of action for the arrival or pending
               arrival of fishing and recreational vessels and

 
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               floating structures that have spent extended
               periods of time tied up in out-of-state ports; and

          (C)  Penalties;

     (2)  Allows the Governor to enter into an agreement with the
          U.S. Secretary of Transportation to carry out the
          purposes of this bill, including the enforcement of
          state law; and

     (3)  Appropriates the sum of $50,000 to enable the
          Department to carry out the purposes of this bill.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the
appropriation to the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

     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.
1949, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it
pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1949,
H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

                                 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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