STAND. COM. REP. NO. 452-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2768
                                     




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water and Land Use and Judiciary and
Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2768 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO KIKALA-KEOKEA,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to provide funds for the
development of infrastructure for the Kikala-Keokea homestead
area to be administered by the Department of Land and Natural
Resources (DLNR) and transfers $1,750,000 of funds previously
authorized by Act 242 for such infrastructure.  This bill also
transfers the authority as expending agency for this project from
the Housing Finance and Development Corporation (currently known
as the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawaii,
or HCDCH) to DLNR.

     Testimony was received in support of this bill by the Office
of Hawaiian Affairs, and the HCDCH.

     DLNR supports this bill in its transfer of authority to the
appropriate implementing agency, and as it would not adversely
affect current priorities as indicated in the Executive
Supplemental Budget.

     No testimony was received in opposition to this bill.

     Your committee finds that DLNR has been implementing the
incremental development of such infrastructure for the HCDCH

 
 
 
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through an Inter-Agency Agreement, subject to availability of
funding.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Water and Land Use and Judiciary and Hawaiian
Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in
accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2768 and recommend
that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on
Finance.
                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Water and Land
                                   Use and Judiciary and Hawaiian
                                   Affairs,

                                   
                                   
                                   
                                   
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ROMY M. CACHOLA, Chair             ERIC G. HAMAKAWA, Chair