Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2010 entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to operate and maintain the East Kauai Irrigation System (System).

The Hawaii Farm Bureau Federation, Hawaii Agriculture Research Center, Agro Resources, Inc., Smith's Motor Boat Service, Inc., Saiva Siddhanta Church, County of Kauai, Department of Water of the County of Kauai, and a member of the Kauai County Council submitted testimony in support of this measure. The East Kauai Water Users' Cooperative supported this measure with amendments. The Agribusiness Development Corporation offered comments on this measure.

Your Committees recognize the critical need for reliable irrigation water in the Kapaa area of Kauai and, therefore, the need to assist the East Kauai Water Users' Cooperative with the ongoing operation and maintenance of the System.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Agriculture and Water, Land Use, and Hawaiian Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2010, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2010, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.