Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2002

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2976 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to make a grant-in-aid to the City and County of Honolulu to clean up the Kailua waterway system waterway.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the Department of Health, Honolulu Department of Environmental Services, Kailua Neighborhood Board No. 31, Kailua Bay Advisory Council, Enchanted Lake Residents Association, Koolau News, Oceanit, and three private citizens.

The Kailua waterway system incorporates Enchanted Lake, Kaelepulu Stream, Kawainui Canal, and Oneawa Canal. The problem with these waterways is that they form a basin for runoff from lands owned by the City and County of Honolulu, the State, federal government, and private landowners. Eventually, the runoff discharges into Kailua Bay.

Your Committee has amended this measure to condition the grant on a match from the City and County of Honolulu.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Tourism and Intergovernmental Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2976, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2976, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.