STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2169

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2741
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and
Economic Development, to which was referred S.B. No. 2741
entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE STATE WATER CODE,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide the Department of
Agriculture with an additional two years to complete the State
Agricultural Water Use and Development Plan mandated by Act 101,
Session Laws of Hawaii 1998 (Act 101).

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Department of Agriculture, the Commission on Water Resource
Management, and the Hawaii Farm Bureau.

     Your Committees find that the Department of Agriculture,
under Act 101, Session Laws of Hawaii 1998, was charged with the
responsibility to develop a State Agricultural Water Use and
Development Plan by the beginning of 2000.  However, your
Committees also find that no additional funds were appropriated
to the Department of Agriculture to carry out this additional
responsibility.

     Currently, the Department of Agriculture is utilizing its
existing resources and is working in collaboration with the
Commission on Water Resource Management to meet the mandates of
Act 101.


 
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     Your Committees believe that providing the Department of
Agriculture with an additional two years to complete the State
Agricultural Water Use and Development Plan is reasonable
considering that no additional funds have been made available for
this purpose.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Water, Land, and Hawaiian Affairs and Economic
Development that are attached to this report, your Committees are
in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2741 and
recommend that it pass Second Reading and be placed on the
calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Water, Land, and
                                   Hawaiian Affairs and Economic
                                   Development,



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LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair          COLLEEN HANABUSA, Chair

 
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