STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2091

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2604
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs, to
which was referred S.B. No. 2604 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ALA WAI WATERSHED,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to clarify the scope of the
capital improvement project authorized under Act 91, Session Laws
of Hawaii 1999, section 64, item A. 15, relating to planning for
sediment retention basins for the discharge from the Manoa and
Palolo Streams.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Land and Natural Resources, the Department of
Health, the Hawaii Tourism Authority, the Waikiki Improvement
Association, and five private citizens.  The University of
Hawaii's Environmental Center submitted comments on the bill.

     Your Committee finds that the measure clarifies the scope of
the planning process by specifically requiring that a conceptual
plan for sediment retention basins for Manoa and Palolo Streams
be formulated, that an environmental assessment be undertaken,
and alternatives to the basins be considered.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by making technical,
nonsubstantive amendments for the purpose of style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs that is attached

 
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to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and
purpose of S.B. No. 2604, as amended herein, and recommends that
it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B.
No. 2604, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs,



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                                   COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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