STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2265

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2991
                                        S.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2991 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO TRANSPORTATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to direct the Director of
Transportation to establish new design guidelines to govern new
construction, reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, or
rehabilitation of bridges, principal and minor arterial roads,
collector and local roads, and streets in Hawaii.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure
from the Department of Transportation, Na Leo Pohai, Life of the
Land, Hawaii's Thousand Friends, Alliance for the Heritage of
East Maui, Hanalei Roads Committee, Pulama Ia Kona Heritage
Preservation Council, North Hilo Community Association, and an
individual.

     Your Committee finds that this measure will establish new
guidelines that will give the state and counties more flexibility
to repair, rather than destroy historic bridges and to maintain
historic roadways.

     Your Committee has amended the measure by replacing the
language "design standards" with "design guidelines" to provide
more flexibility in the design of streets and highways, and has
changed the effective date of this measure by placing a
completion date of June 30, 2003.   

 
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     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. 2991, as amended herein, and
recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 2991, 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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