Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water and Land Use and Energy and Environmental Protection, to which was referred H.B. No. 50 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to provide funds to the University of Hawaii to develop a multi-use ocean-floating platform.

The Hawaii Natural Energy Institute of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology at the University of Hawaii and an individual testified in support of this bill.

Your Committees find that Hawaii is an ideal place to develop a multi-use ocean-floating platform to serve as a research and development center for marine resources.

Your Committees have amended this bill by inserting a $1 appropriation to facilitate further discussion.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water and Land Use and Energy and Environmental Protection that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 50, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 50, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.