Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Water and Land Use, to which was referred H.B. No. 1164, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to prohibit the intentional introduction of any live alien aquatic organism into the state without the prior written approval of the Department of Land and Natural Resources.

The testimony in support of this measure was received by Department of Land and Natural Resources. Matson Navigation opposed this measure because of ship ballast discharges and recommended that a task force be established to study the problem.

Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that normal ship ballast water discharges and/or hull encrustations are unintentional introductions.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Water and Land Use that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1164, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1164, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.