STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2175

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2748
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Economic Development, to which was
referred S.B. No. 2748 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION FOR THE
     DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to authorize the issuance and
appropriation of $3,800,000 in general obligation bonds in FY
1999-2000, to finance the planning, design, construction, and
equipping of a new building for the measurements standards and
commodities programs of the Department of Agriculture, and to
appropriate $500,000 in general funds in FY 2000-2001 to
temporarily relocate the program.

     Testimony in favor of this measure was submitted by the
Department of Agriculture, the Hawaii Community Development
Authority (HCDA), and the Hawaii Farm Bureau.

     Your Committee finds that the redevelopment of the Kakaako
area by the HCDA will require demolition of the measurements
standards building located on Ilalo Street.  After exploring a
number of options, the measurement standards building will be
relocated to a site at the former Kapalama Military Reservation
on Sand Island.  This move will enable the redevelopment of
approximately 200 acres of State land along the Kakaako
waterfront.


 
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     Your Committee has expressed some concern regarding the
relocation to Sand Island, as this may be considered a prime
development area of Honolulu.  In response to a request, your
Committee has received communication from the Department of
Transportation that it is also in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure to change the
lapsing date in section 5 from 2001 to 2002, and to make
technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Economic Development that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of S.B. No. 2748, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2748,
S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Economic
                                   Development,



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                                   LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair

 
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