Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 1559 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for the department of transportation to develop plans for the construction of an alternate access road along the North Shore's Drum Road.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that the closure of Drum Road due to the rockslide occurring on the Kahuku side of Waimea Bay caused tremendous inconvenience to visitors and residents of the North Shore.

Your Committee further finds that there exists the possibility of another rockslide and road closure due to soil erosion on the Haleiwa side of Waimea Bay. Your Committee believes that the State should take proactive steps to plan the construction of another access road, so as to avoid the type of total road closure that occurred following the last rockslide. Therefore, your Committee supports this measure, which is a step toward construction of an alternate access road.

Your Committee left the dollar amount of the appropriation blank for determination by your Committee on Ways and Means. In addition, your Committee made several technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1559, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1559, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.