STAND. COM. REP. NO. 66

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1367
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1367 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SALT LAKE
     BOULEVARD WIDENING, OAHU,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the
design and construction of improvements to Salt Lake Boulevard,
Oahu.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Design and Construction for the City and County of
Honolulu, Aliamanu/Salt Lake/Foster Village No. 18 Neighborhood
Board, and the Hawaii Operating Engineers Industry Stabilization
Fund.

     Testimony indicated that, due to its current financial
situation, the City and County of Honolulu may not be able to
fund the widening of the last unimproved section of Salt Lake
Boulevard.  Currently, Salt Lake Boulevard's existing two-lane
configuration is not suited for the heavy traffic demand.  Salt
Lake Boulevard is not only used by residents within the area, but
also by patrons of Stadium Mall, Costco, K-Mart, Salt Lake
Shopping Center, other businesses in the Bougainville Industrial
Park, and Aloha Stadium.  In addition, Salt Lake Boulevard
provides access to several public schools in the area and serves
as an alternative to H-1 and the Moanalua Freeway.


 
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     Your Committee finds that improvements to Salt Lake
Boulevard are needed in order to meet current and future traffic
demands.  In addition, these improvements will also create new
construction opportunities for the State's construction industry.

     Your Committee has amended this bill by deleting the amounts
appropriated in this measure and deferring this determination to
the Committee on Ways and Means.  Your Committee also made
technical, nonsubstantive amendments.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1367, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 1367, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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