Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Water, Land, Energy and Environment and Agriculture, to which was referred S.B. No. 11 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to increase the state share of the capital improvement project appropriation for the lower Hamakua Ditch watershed project by $800,000.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Agriculture.

Your Committees find that the department has been informed of additional federal matching requirements to qualify for federal aid for this project, and recommends increasing the state share.

Your Committees have amended this measure accordingly, to increase the state matching share by an additional $700,000, for a total increase of $1,500,000.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Water, Land, Energy and Environment and Agriculture that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 11, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 11, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.