STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2329

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 3052
                                        




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. 3052 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR A WAR
     MEMORIAL HONORING THE "TORPEDO GANG" OF WORLD WAR II,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the measure is to appropriate funds for a
World War II memorial honoring the "Torpedo Gang" of World War
II.

     Testimony in support of the measure was received from the
Office of Veteran Services, and the Hawaiian Chinese
Multicultural Museum & Archives.  The Board of Land and Natural
Resources supports the intent but does not support the measure as
it would result in reducing current priorities in their budget.

     Your Committee finds that this measure would help to
commemorate this little remembered tragedy, which occurred in
Hawaiian waters shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
 
     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. 3052 and recommends that it pass
Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.


 
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                                   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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