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. 1494, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds for a demonstration project to remove invasive macroalgae in Kaneohe Bay.

The Sierra Club, two University of Hawaii researchers, and two concerned citizens testified in support of this bill. The Department of Land and Natural Resources opposed this bill.

Your Committee finds that invasive macroalgae pose a severe threat to our marine ecosystem in Kaneohe Bay and should be eliminated.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

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. 1494, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1494, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.