STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2950

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2973
                                        H.D. 2
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Economic Development and Labor and
Environment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2973, H.D. 2,
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR MICONIA
     ERADICATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for
miconia eradication in the counties of Hawaii, Kalawao, Kauai,
and Maui, and the City and County of Honolulu.

     Testimony in favor of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Land and Natural Resources, Environmental Center,
University of Hawai`i at Manoa, two members of the Maui County
Council, Maui Invasive Species Committee, Big Island Invasive
Species Committee, Big Island Miconia Control Program, Hawai`i
Forest Industry Association, Hawaii Society of American
Foresters, Hawaii Association of Conservation Districts, The
Nature Conservancy of Hawai`i, Na Leo Pohai of The Outdoor
Circle, Sierra Club, Hawai`i Chapter, Hawaii Island Economic
Development Board, Maui Hotel Association, and three individuals.

     Your Committees find that on Maui and the Island of Hawaii,
private-public multi-agency coalitions have organized effective
control efforts for miconia.  On Maui, total eradication may be
possible within two years, while control on the Big Island may
require ten years.  Continued follow-up treatments at known sites

 
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are also needed for Kauai and Oahu to ensure that miconia has
been fully eradicated.

     Your Committees are fully supportive of these eradication
efforts and have amended this measure to restore funding at
$500,000.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Economic Development and Labor and Environment that
are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with
the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2973, H.D. 2, as amended
herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form
attached hereto as H.B. No. 2973, 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
                                   Committees on Economic
                                   Development and Labor and
                                   Environment,



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BOB NAKATA, Chair                  LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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